Don't let the particulars of the Starmer crisis distract from its deeper causes

Don't let the particulars of the Starmer crisis distract from its deeper causes

Well if nothing else, Sir Keir Starmer has partly falsified my analysis of his government. I have previously argued that Labour’s travails, cathartic as they might be, are simply a product of the doom spiral in the public finances, and that any future government is likely to end up almost as unpopular, almost as quickly. But say what you like about Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage, I think – and I don’t want to jinx it – they would both manage to r…

Don’t let the particulars of the Starmer crisis distract from its deeper causes

Well if nothing else, Sir Keir Starmer has partly falsified my analysis of his government. I have previously argued that Labour’s travails, cathartic as they might be, are simply a product of the doom spiral in the public finances, and that any future government is likely to end up almost as unpopular, almost as quickly. But say what you like about Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage, I think – and I don’t want to jinx it – they would both manage to r…