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Labour’s myopic plotters need to grow up

New Statesman·Lionel Barber·20 days ago
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Photo by Jack Taylor/ WPA Pool/Getty Images The UK is not a football club. Chopping and changing managers mid-season is the business of Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. It’s no recipe for success (I speak as a long-suffering Spurs fan); and it’s definitely not a serious plan for running a country. Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, the UK has been a case study in political instability. We’ve had six prime ministers in ten years, including David Cameron; that’s on top of five defence secretaries, six chancellors and five Cabinet secretaries. The UK is starting to resemble Italy, except that Giorgia Meloni’s Italy looks like a paragon of stable government by comparison. I hold no brief for Keir Starmer. He lacks the three essential qualities of leadership. He is a third-rate communicator with no ability to spot talent, build a team or fulfill a mission. He’s made more U-turns than a London cabbie hunting for a fare in Soho.…

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