Has Sir Keir Starmer already checked out? There was a strange atmosphere in the House of Commons today. A sort of calm in the eye of the storm pervaded. The Prime Minister seemed more relaxed than he’d been for ages, perhaps finally resigned to, well, resigning.
There are asthmatic sloths which could produce more fulsome cheers than Labour managed in the Commons
Maybe he’s preparing himself for his future; as an avuncular guest on The Rest is Politics or on Arsenal fan podcasts? I can see it now, a more relaxed Starmer in an open necked shirt, jokes about being a Gooner, Mandelson forgotten. This is Centrist Dad Valhalla and Keir is at rest. I mean if Alastair Campbell can achieve it, broadcasting from his massive house as opposed to the cell in The Hague where he belongs then why shouldn’t Starmer? We know that shame is not a feeling that sits within his emotional range.
Kemi Badenoch made a good attempt at trying to rile him, specifically on energy policy. As the hardcore derangement of putting Ed Miliband in charge of anything begins to bite Britain’s energy sector, so the government has been forced into the insane position of lifting sanctions on Russian oil and gas in order to continue its ideological commitment to no new drilling off Scotland. In the past, the implicit accusation of not acting in the national interest would have set off a wave of wobbles along the contours of that spammy face. Now, Starmer basically just shrugged.
