In a rare turn of events Sir Keir Starmer is shaping up to be one of the best Conservative Prime Ministers we’ve had for ages. Lefty members of the man’s party must be foaming at the mouth at the millionaire peer’s new-found grasp, and indeed relishing, of old-fashioned Tory values. Values which you would have thought people like Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss might have kept slightly closer to their hearts if they had really wanted to win over voters.
Just look at what the last few days of the blue-Labour knight has given us: Promises for vastly increased spending on defence; axing of the foreign aid budget; warnings of swingeing cuts to benefits (including disability); shipping off almost 20,000 illegals back to their countries of origin and strong hints that attacks on wealth are now done. It’s the stuff of Tory wet dreams. And it continued at Prime Minister's Questions where, for the fourth week running, the Prime Minister wiped the floor with poor Kemi Badenoch.
Indeed the Leader of the Opposition is starting to look like an irrelevance thanks to the haphazardness of her interrogation and her woefully poor briefing. So yet again this week her timid, almost 6th form level performance, left Starmer looking every inch the international statesman in a different political league. To be fair, against all expectations, he kind of is right now.
The man is having a good war. Brexit or no Brexit , Europe came to London to thrash out endgame scenarios for Ukraine and Starmer bos.
