The choreography has become wearily familiar. The prime minister is entangled in turmoil; the public turns against them; their party panics, and MPs boot them out of power, despite having previously hailed them as national saviours. A successor arrives talking of change, hope and a new politics, promising bold reforms to sort out Britain’s problems but then failing to deliver.
So now Sir Keir Starmer is slinking out of Downing Street, a decent man crushed by the job and despised by the public, while Andy Burnham assembles his team and gets feted by Westminster’s many sycophants. Yet there is one area where the departing leader deserves big credit and should be judged positively by the history books: as the man who helped save Ukraine from the dual threat of Russia and a patsy United States president.
In recent weeks, it has been terrific to see how Kyiv has turned the tables on the Kremlin with a technology-led counterpunch after another terrible winter onslaught on its energy infrastructure. Mobile fleets of drones are crippling Russia’s crucial refineries 1,400 miles into the interior, extending their range fivefold in little more than a year, while striking tankers in Moscow’s shadow fleet in the Sea of Azov and severing transport links to occupied Crimea.
