Photographed wearing a giant poppy (and on a cold weekend in December, long after it is necessary) Sir Keir Starmer writes a piece in a conservative newspaper pitching for Conservative voters and praising Margaret Thatcher. That is the combustible headline elsewhere anyway. The truth — the context — is Thatcher was one example of leadership in the piece, book-ended with Labour leaders Clement Attlee and Tony Blair. “Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism,” he wrote, and that was it. He didn’t even say she was right. Then he asked Conservative voters “to take a look at us again. If you believe that Britain needs stability, order, security then Labour is the party for you”.
I have a lot of time for Starmer — I like how he stabbed Jeremy Corbyn when he was down
