In a parallel universe, and perhaps a happier one for him, Sir Keir Starmer would have ended up as attorney general in some sort of Labour government, led by someone other than him. He confessed as much to his sympathetic biographer, Tom Baldwin, some time ago. More recently, this accidental prime minister has been unburdening himself in a series of interviews to mark his first, rather difficult year in office.
“In office”, that is, rather than “in power”, as the old saying goes, because his authority has been draining away at an alarming rate lately. It seems to be getting him down.
