Why Labour should stand by Starmer |
Labour MPs want shot of Keir Starmer over the Peter Mandelson scandal. There is nothing new in that sentence until the mention of the former ambassador. Mandelson’s reported disclosure of government information to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is the latest pretext, but before that it was because he rebuffed the Waspi women, and before that because Andy Burnham wanted the job, and before that because he’s sunk Labour’s chances ahead of May’s Scottish elections, and if you keep going back there was Gaza and gender and the winter fuel payment debacle.
The experience of government is not what Labour MPs expected. The Labour party is a mass-membership moral superiority complex and its MPs and activists were happiest when railing against Boris Johnson and his ethically compromised........