Someone close to Tony Blair says that Keir Starmer’s problem, apart from the fact that his ministers and aides are not very good, is that they are “a bunch of librarians and academics in charge of a government”.
This may be unfair to librarians and academics, but we know what is meant. I am told that this person thinks that Starmer’s government is unimaginative and out of touch; that it lacks the “dexterity” to manage the daily crises that besiege 10 Downing Street, and that there isn’t much diversity of thought at the top of government, that “they all think the same”.
