Labour’s weak leader is not out of the woods
A feeble victory in Batley has not solved the fundamental flaws in Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership
3 July 2021 • 7:00am
Holding Batley and Spen by a whisker has allowed Keir Starmer some breathing room. Yet for all his feeble attempts to frame retaining a heartland seat by a mere 323 votes as a “fantastic” victory that confirms “Labour is back”, the fundamental issues afflicting both Starmer and his party’s fortunes have not gone away.
The Labour leader has had one basic task over recent months: gain some solid ground against the Tories after the party’s historic drubbing under Jeremy Corbyn. Instead, the limply triangulating Sir Keir has struggled not to go backwards.
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