Starmer is a huge improvement on Corbyn, but no matter how much he impressed me, I would be mad to vote for him in this constituency.
I live in a Tory/LibDem marginal. Currently we have an abominable ERG Tory MP, who is not a patch on our previous LibDem MP, who served us well for eighteen years.
We are still lucky enough to have a LibDem Council with a sizeable majority over the Tory opposition. There are also a small number of Independent Councillors but NO Labout Councillors.
The Labour Party is virtually non-existant here. If, because Keir Starmer came over as a better leader of the Labour Party, some of those who oppose the Tories were tempted to vote Labour, what would be the result?
It would mean taking votes from the LibDems so that a right-wing Tory would be more likely to be re-elected, making it more difficult to achieve a Labour Government.