Keir Starmer is discovering that politics is a rough trade in which you don’t get any thanks – not even from your own side, let alone the voters.
Labour MPs will mark the first anniversary of their leader’s general election victory next week by mounting their biggest challenge to his authority. Some 122 of them – more than enough to defeat the government’s working majority of 165 – have signed an amendment opposing the welfare bill’s proposed cuts to disability benefits. A funny way to say “Thanks for the landslide, Keir,” isn’t it?
