How will journalists live with no-drama Starmer? Since 2016, five long prime ministers ago, we have lived with it — Brexit, the day the news sped up and never stopped, Johnson, Truss, the death of Elizabeth II, the rise and fall of Sunak — and we are addicted. Now the narcissists, grifters and showmen are done (though I don’t include Sunak in that) and we face a lawyer who loves listening to people, and paperwork.
It will be different. The carnival of eight years is over, and we must adjust to a new reality which I hope will feel less like an awful, self-hating kind of entertainment, and more like functional — and therefore “boring!”, to quote Nadine Dorries, who screamed it at Keir Starmer in the chamber — government. It was narcotic, sure, but the country burnt down.
