The possibility that Keir Starmer’s gamble with resignation might go wrong has started the speculation of who might lead Labour next. In all probability no vacancy will arise and the chatter is even more idle than usual. But the discussion has a purpose nonetheless, in that it sheds light on the state of play in the always fractious politics of the Labour Party.
In a portrait by Jim Pickard and George Parker in this week’s edition of the Financial Times magazine, an anonymous left-wing voice offers the all-purpose insult that a Wes Streeting leadership would entail a “return to full Blairism”. It is always remarkable to witness a party that takes the name of its only electoral winner in almost half a century and turns it into a term of abuse. Three large victories – nobody would ever want to reprise any of that, would they?
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