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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jonathan Freedland

After the latest Mandelson revelations, Starmer needs to get a good lawyer. Wasn’t he supposed to be one?

Keir Starmer at a summit in Paris on how to resume shipping in the strait of Hormuz on Friday.
Keir Starmer at a summit in Paris on how to resume shipping in the strait of Hormuz on Friday. Photograph: Tom Nicholson/PA

Keir Starmer is dull and managerial, they said. He’s a process-obsessed technocrat, they said. He is, his opponents argued long before Starmer won a landslide election victory nearly two years ago, a bad choice for prime minister – indeed, unsuited to politics itself – because he is not so much a leader as a lawyer, animated less by ideology than by official documents and boring details.

If only.

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