Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Keir Starmer’s not a great prime minister. He’s not even a good prime minister. The mess Labour’s in right now is, undeniably and in no small part, thanks to him. The list is a long one: his allowing himself to be persuaded to adopt a counterproductively small (even tiny) target strategy in the run up to the 2024 election; his tin-eared acceptance of freebies from donors; his spectacularly ill-judged LBC interview on Gaza at Labour’s first post-election annual conference; his allowing Rachel Reeves to try to means test the winter fuel allowance only to backtrack on it when the going got tough, making him and his government look both mean and weak; and his “island of strangers” speech and appointment of a Home Secretary apparently hell-bent on alienating the government’s socially liberal supporters so as to keep on board the “hero voters” who contributed far less to its victory in 2024 that Blue Labour fans still insist on pretending.…