IT has now been more than a year since Keir Starmer replaced Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the British Labour Party.
After taking a hammering at the 2019 General Election, and particularly in the traditional Labour-voting northern cities and towns of England, the party’s upper echelons lost no time saying hasta la vista to the Corbynistas.
Corbyn had been portrayed as the champion of radical left-wing policy. He started his leadership with promising signs of change, such as reading out concerns from members of the public at Prime Minister’s Questions.
However, the novelty quickly wore off as it became clear that these were little more than performative hollow gestures. A lifelong commitment to nuclear disarmament appeared to be dissipate the moment he became leader of the opposition. The very principles which made Corbyn so attractive to many in Scotland are the very principles that seemed to cost him in England.