The die is cast. Earlier this week Keir Starmer announced the team he will lead into the next election. Much has been made of the return of the Blairites and the fall of the soft left. But what does the reshuffle tell us about the response of the Labour leadership to this tumultuous period of crises and political realignment?
The country is in a dark and unforgiving mood. Stagnant real wages, a broken housing market, a dysfunctional NHS – there is a widespread feeling that nothing works and nobody can fix it. Precious little light is on the horizon. And yet Brexit has gifted Labour a historical opportunity. The EU has locked in national populist resentment. While the rest of Europe turns to the right, the British electorate is open to a government of the left.
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