You will miss Sir Keir Starmer when he has gone. I hear you say that you will do no such thing. You think that Starmer has been a disaster. He was ‘Two-tier Keir,’ ‘Sir Kid Harmer,’ ‘Free-Gear Keir’ and whatever other insults conservatives generated from their rhyming dictionaries, and that you will be absolutely delighted when he resigns.

I hear what you say. But I am afraid I don’t believe you.

You will miss him, like addicts miss their fix.

The best way to understand Starmer is as a drug. Precisely because he was so mind-numbingly tedious and so terrible at politics, he was the perfect escape from our national decline – Britain’s last diversionary tactic.

You won’t understand the extraordinary and, frankly, shameful abuse directed at him unless you grasp his role as scapegoat for a deeply dishonest political culture.

Precisely because he was so mind-numbingly tedious and so terrible at politics, he was the perfect escape from our national decline – Britain’s last diversionary tactic

Precisely because he was so mind-numbingly tedious and so terrible at politics, he was the perfect escape from our national decline – Britain’s last diversionary tactic

Starmer has defended Ukraine and coped with Donald Trump’s destruction of the Atlantic alliance – surely the most dangerous threat to national security since the end of the Cold War. Yet no one gave him credit for standing up to Trump or for rebuilding military relationships with Europe.

On the contrary and preposterously, Starmer became more unpopular than Liz Truss – even though he never caused an economic crisis. He was more unpopular than Nigel Farage – even though the worst allegation levelled against him was that he took free suits from a friend rather than, for instance, £5 million........

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