
Keir Starmer has finally made it. Today, on 11 February, he received the accolade of a praiseworthy editorial in the Wall Street Journal, perhaps the most consistently right-wing of Rupert Murdoch’s mouthpieces.
The reason, of course, was the Labour leader’s panegyric to Nato, his full-throated support for the most confrontational approach to resolving the Ukraine-Russia crisis, and his associated attack on the Stop the War Coalition.