To grasp the real threat to Keir Starmer, ignore the chat about freebie specs or Sue Gray. Tune out the now shuttered party conference, with its secure zone of paid babblers. Listen instead to those in a group avowedly loyal to the new prime minister, because they can see the dangers in plain sight.
Labour Together gets called a Westminster thinktank, but that cap doesn’t quite fit. Rather than a policy shop, its expertise is polling and focus groups – the very tools relied upon by a previous boss, Morgan McSweeney, in his strategy to make Starmer Labour leader. Those same instruments are also at the heart of its latest investigation – called How Labour Won – into why and how the party just got into Downing Street.
