What the remaking of Labour reveals about Sir Keir Starmer
How might Britain’s would-be prime minister approach the job?
TO THOSE WHO question his readiness to be prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer has a message: look at how he has run the opposition. “I have changed this Labour Party, dragged it back to service, and I will do exactly the same for Westminster,” he told a rally early on in the general-election campaign. It is true that the best clues to his modus operandi are found in the way in which his party has been slowly remade. Less certain is how well this method would work should Sir Keir lead Labour to victory on July 4th.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The Starmer method”
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