In the spring, most people couldn’t pick Keir Starmer out of a line-up and those who did consistently preferred Boris Johnson to him. As summer nears its end, most people have heard of the Labour leader and most of them like him. McDonnell has other objections and concerns about the direction of Starmer’s Labour party, but his handling of the coronavirus isn’t one of them. The reality is that he is not a constructive opposition leader, because no one ever is. The most important and neglected part of his political style is that he is the first party leader to have run a big corporate organisation, in his case, the Crown Prosecution Service.

Source: The Guardian August 23, 2020 07:41 UTC