The reshuffle, thought to have been deftly managed by Sue Gray, made a shadow cabinet heavy with stalwarts from the Blair-Brown era
I don’t know about other people but I really was hoping for more than a sequel to the Blair years. I mean I get they need experience but the Tories are on the ropes, the Centrists in the party have had 13 years to come up with new ideas…
I think the main difference between election mode Blair and election mode Starmer was that Blair looked passionate and enthusiastic about wanting to introduce policies to improve things for people, and that was infectious.
Like I’ve said, I just get the impression with Starmer he kind of says ‘oh yeah… we’re not doing that either now’, and he might have a good reason. It comes over like he’s taking ideas away from the table.
It’s easy for me to say I know. I don’t know the decisions he has to make. I just worry those floating voters will think Starmer and Sunak are very similar and not care who gets in because ‘they’re all the same’
Blair, for all his faults, had charisma. He knew how to twist a crowd and how to twist the media. I would have expected a decorate lawyer to have those skills too, but Starmer seems to be a wet blanket who’s only skill is the occasional good quip at PMQs