The end of Starmer?

Today’s local elections may finally force Labour to accept that the Prime Minister has to go.

Few political leaders have the good sense to retire before they are pushed. The lure of power and status may be an innate human instinct, but it is surprising that more politicians don’t keep a keener eye on their legacy. ‘All political lives,’ wrote Enoch Powell, ‘unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is…