Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images I’m writing this before the political storm, as it were, in the tranquillity of a West Highland “smirr” – which is, for those unacquainted with the Scots, a rain so fine you can barely see it, and yet surprisingly wet. I completely support the Prime Minister and I’m laser-focused on the job in hand. But, friends, this is going to be a storm of the brownest and most pungent nature, is it not? It’s lonely being a natural optimist, but that is a matter of temperament and fate, not choice. So here goes… We thirst for a government with a clear purpose and philosophy, one that thinks more radically about growth and about defending ourselves. And in the coming fight for the leadership, every candidate is at least talking this way, trying to focus on the big stuff. One candidate, it seems, is an outsider called Keir Starmer, who wrote on 2 May about the “perfect storm of crises sweeping towards us”.…