It’s like watching dead men walking. Or, to be accurate, a dead man and a dead woman walking. Ghosts of Christmas parties past, haunting the dispatch box. Cast your mind forward to a year from now. It’s more than likely that prime minister’s questions will look very different. A change of cast. If not a change of fortune.
Keir Starmer might not even make it much further than the end of May. The budget chaos and No 10’s curious briefings against itself have left many Labour MPs in despair. The government can’t even get the basics right these days. Cabinet ministers can barely be trusted to dress themselves.
The May local elections could be the last straw. Only on Wednesday’s BBC Politics Live show, Clive Lewis was saying he would be happy to give up his seat to make way for Andy Burnham’s return to Westminster. Whether Andy would be happy to swap Manchester for Norwich is another matter, but you get the picture.
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