You can imagine the dialogue at that meeting.
Streeting: good morning Prime Minister
Starmer: hello Wes, what can I do for you?
Streeting: may I have permission to challenge your leadership?
Starmer: no
Streeting thank you very much Prime Minister (exit)
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Henry Zeffman: PM puts himself back in the game for now - BBC News. I used to say Boris Johnson was delusional when the chips were down but I would have expected a bit more realism from Starmer. The toxic effect of absolute power every time! apple.news/A_f7Xzg-JQEC7gxuK…
Whilst this gained him significant political capital on the left, it stirred dark sentiments on the right and far right of British politics. Worried that the Brexit drive lurch to the right was going to be reversed, right wing media started to plot. bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1e2n923…
Even those of us from SKS’s side of the spectrum never really saw him as a long term leader for the party in Tony Blair sense. In winning the 2024 election so soon after the 2019 disaster he delivered and in delivering a landslide he exceeded expectations bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1e2n923…