The myth-making has begun. Allies of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are claiming that he is a decent man who has done his best for his country; a brave and principled politician whose heroic efforts rescued the Labour Party from bankruptcy and oblivion.
In the words of Labour MP Luke Akehurst, a close ally, Starmer “achieved what many said was impossible by taking Labour from a broken party, morally compromised by antisemitism and extremism, at the end of the Corbyn era, to a landslide win”.
Starmer himself boasted on the steps of Downing Street on Monday that he leaves office with Britain’s reputation restored as a country that stands for “decency, respect and the rule of law”.
If only a small part of this was true, Starmer would not have been forced out. But it’s not.
Starmer posed as a man of the left, then brought the language of Enoch Powell back to mainstream British politics by warning that the country risked turning into an “island of strangers” without stronger immigration controls.
