Keir Starmer’s Resignation: The End of a Manufactured “Decent” Man
Keir Starmer did not suddenly become a failure today. Today is just the moment when the political system and the media can no longer pretend he is anything else.
For years, the British press sold Starmer as “forensic”, “grown‑up”, “decent”, “capable”. They needed a respectable front man to bury the Corbyn project and reassure the establishment that nothing truly transformative would be allowed near power again. Starmer fit the role: lawyer, knighted, polished, apparently serious. On paper, he looked like stability.
Peter Oborne spent years saying: look past the polish, look at the record…
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