Here’s a suggestion for how Keir Starmer might use this final weekend of the summer recess before politics resumes in earnest on Monday. He should settle into his favourite spot on the sofa and dive into a TV masterpiece that could not be more topical – one produced for the moment when a Tory government is dying and a new, Labour one is waiting to be born.
It sets out with brilliant clarity the range of problems that awaits the Labour leader should he reach Downing Street – housing, policing, poverty, crime, inequality – and grapples with the eternal dilemma of the left: is change best secured through radicalism, inspirational and impatient, or pragmatism, cautious and gradual? All that in nine gripping episodes.
