OPINION - Thatcher would have loved Keir Starmer — he's now more Tory than the Tories

You have to ask: is Keir Starmer the best Tory in contemporary politics? Is he not just the heir to Blair (minus the charisma) but to Margaret Thatcher? And is his Irish Svengali, Morgan McSweeney, channelling Dominic Cummings? Only today the PM has abolished NHS England, pretty well the quintessential quango, declaring: “I don’t see why decisions about £200 billion of taxpayer money for something as fundamental to our security as the NHS should be taken by an arms-length body, NHS England”. It looks like a return to the NHS reforms instituted by Andrew Lansley – yes, a Tory.