COMPLAINING ABOUT the standard of our politicians is a reassuring British tradition and while the Economist has compared Rishi Sunak to Milhouse, perennial loser in The Simpsons, there is something inescapably cartoonish about all the party leaders. Sir Keir Starmer reminds me of Walter the Softy, the priggish sneak who made life difficult for Dennis the Menace (Boris Johnson as was).
In reality, Starmer is a professional social democrat of the type that, Corbyn aside, has led Labour for as long as the has existed. Like Harold Wilson and Tony Blair, he had to pretend to be more left-wing than he is to be elected leader, then devote much energy to keeping out the Left. And like them, he will have to pretend to be more right-wing than he is
