To be prime minister is a chance to impose one's character and beliefs on the nation - to mould the era. But what if the holder of this great office has no distinctive personality?

Starmer may be on his way out but the issues that constrained his premiership won’t go with him

'Since surviving a brush with political death over the Peter Mandelson scandal in February, Keir Starmer has struck a defiant tone - but the mood is shifting'