It’s not just Ian Dunt. Starmer has lost John McTernan now, too…
McTernan, former political secretary to Tony Blair, backed Starmer resolutely at the beginning of his premiership. Now Labour aides are passing around his excoriation of the PM which landed in the New Statesman yesterday…
There is some bemused reaction at his conclusion that Starmer is too weak to survive and has to go:
“However, if there is one lesson from the Tories, it is surely that changing your prime minister alone doesn’t change your electoral fate. Labour has lost its way, and the now necessary leadership election must be used carefully. The new leader needs to define a transformative political economy that meets the challenges of the moment, and articulate a vision of how the UK can prosper.
That’s a better way to build a new coalition of support for a progressive victory than to hang on and hope to be seen as the lesser of two evils in 2029.”
Learn from the Tories – quite some pill to swallow in Labour HQ…
