Behind closed doors, as Keir Starmer moves nearer to Downing Street, internal tensions are rising in the leader’s office. No surprise there. The scale of the reform Britain needs and the weakness of the resources to achieve it should scare anyone witless. And buzzing round the “next prime minister” are a crowd of some of the brightest and most ambitious thinkers in the country. Of course, they don’t all agree.
In the midst of the constant hubbub, the contradictory advice and frantic lobbying for jobs, balls have been dropped and mistakes made. The Rochdale by-election selection error infuriated Sir Keir. The U-turn over the £28bn green revolution was awkwardly done. There have been poisonous briefings, particularly against Sue Gray, the woman tasked with preparing Labour for government.
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