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Zombie politics is the new norm and Starmer’s dying premiership is the latest instalment | Nesrine Malik
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Zombie politics is the new norm and Starmer’s dying premiership is the latest instalment | Nesrine Malik

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F inally, belatedly, an honest portrait of Keir Starmer has been allowed to form. It’s been a hell of a journey. At first he was sanctified as the Labour saviour, finally arrived. That gave way to pleas that he was essentially a good sort, new to politics and in need of time. Now an impression is emerging that he is, in fact, quite a bad egg. To quote a brutal recent summation from a Labour insider speaking to Politico : “Lots of people think Keir Starmer is a good man who is out of his depth. Wrong. He’s an asshole who’s out of his depth.” The charges are now coming thick and fast. He cannot manage teams. He throws people under the bus to save his own skin. He cannot do the job . The whole Peter Mandelson affair, the latest instalment of which is the revelation that Mandelson failed his security vetting, and that Starmer claims not to have been told of this, has at least come with one silver lining.…

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