Keir Starmer’s tanking popularity with the voting public is nothing new. But now he has lost all his remaining street cred with his own MPs. Leaving them unsupervised for regular stretches has clearly given them all separation anxiety, the kind that leads to unfriendly briefings to friendly journalists.
It was looking (relatively) good for the Prime Minister after the Labour Conference at the end of September. Rousing speeches rallied the troops, but as what increasingly looks to be a manifesto-breaking budget looms the country’s leader has been going AWOL with five more trips to add to his annual tally of 17 (and counting).
