Is Sir Keir Starmer a chump?
Those in government seem to think so
Sir Keir Starmer KC is among the most successful British politicians of the past half-century. In just four years, Sir Keir took the Labour Party from its worst defeat since 1935 to a 411-seat landslide result that puts him above Clement Attlee and just below Sir Tony Blair in the pantheon of Labour prime ministers. This came after a garlanded career as a human-rights barrister, in which a man from a modest background rose to the top of a profession that is both snobbish and competitive. Now, aged 62, Sir Keir stands atop a political system that gives near-untrammelled executive power to someone with a colossal majority in Parliament. And yet a simple question is asked in Westminster: is the prime minister a chump?
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