History is littered with the political corpses of the brilliant, the vainglorious and the merely entitled who, even if they finally made it to the top of the greasy pole, found themselves slipping down it prematurely. Sir Keir Starmer is not one of those.
The prime minister came relatively late to politics and if his biographer is to be believed, his highest ambition was to be attorney general in a Labour administration. In some respects, he became a leader almost by accident after the 2019 general election debacle. There were few credible rivals and even fewer who looked likely to repair the damage left behind by Jeremy Corbyn. So Sir Keir it was to be, charisma or not.
