The thing about Keir Starmer is that, even though he is fighting for his political life, he doesn’t betray any of the emotional pressures that must be inwardly convulsing him. This is just as well and is, in fact, the upside of what Boris Johnson calls his “pointless human bollard” quality.
At the moment, he reminds me of a little children’s toy from some years ago – Weebles; stout figures with rounded, heavily weighted bottoms, such that they would tip as far as you could push them, but always right themselves. The slogan was “Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down.”
