🇬🇧 UK 10h ago · Tom McTague

Keir Starmer is all alone

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“When the herd moves it moves,” Boris Johnson declared with laconic self-justification as he left Downing Street in 2022, having finally, finally, accepted his fate. More often than not, though, it does not move at all, but stays still, docile and dumb, or simply frozen by collective indecision. Watching on from the House of Commons press gallery during those long, painful days of withdrawal from the European Union, I remember being struck by the thought that our politics had entered a state of

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