Picture Sir Keir Starmer in his Downing Street study this evening. His No10 steps speech done, Britain’s new Prime Minister has just written his letters of last resort to the Royal Navy’s four nuclear missile submarine commanders. A sobering moment but also a reminder of the awesome power Sir Keir has just inherited. Who could then deny him a moment to lean back in Rishi Sunak’s old chair and glance up at the TV.
On it are the scenes of utter carnage that voters inflicted on the men and women who ran the country for the past 14 years. More than 200 Tory MPs not just out of power but out of a job too, defenestrated entirely in the biggest bloodbath of the Conservative Party’s history.
