Frozen by the challenges of power: how Starmer turned triumph into tragedy

Starmer’s political career has been almost Shakespearean in its trajectory: a mere 11 years to enter parliament, lead Labour to an election win e and then, inside the final two years, throw it all away. No modern prime minister has looked so well-suited to the job on paper and been so fundamentally inept in practice. “Starmer didn’t know what he was doing in three ways,” “Firstly, he never worked out what the job was – what does the prime minister do? Secondly, he never knew what he wanted to do, above all not on economic policy. And thirdly, he didn’t...