This is the sort of thing, I suggest, that people are looking for from Starmer – but his lawyer’s training seems to leave him cold and unmotivated by comparison with Ed Milliband’s visceral sentiment:
And another different and shorter extract here:
Even before we discovered we had 9% inflation, Ed Milliband does a much better job at demolishing Sunak’s chancellorship than Rachel Reeves, who always seems to me a corporate and very much a ‘household’ shadow chancellor.
Ed Milliband may or may not be some or all of those things – but it is clear that he actually feels things and so, I suggest, inspires hope.
The current Labour shadow cabinet line-up really needs a lot more of this.
Peter,
It’s clear Ed has learned a lot, and grown in stature.
Maybe that is because he is no longer constrained by being LOTO, but IMO he’d make a better LOTO now than he did then.
Also, IMO, he’d make a better LOTO and PM in waiting than the current pig in a poke the Labour electorate have ended up with!
“Labour membership and electorate” would be more accurate.
Much agree with your sentiments…
Older and wiser. 52 now, not 40 like he was in 2010. Perhaps it is time for a Miliband comeback?
(For those who are counting, Starmer will be 60 in September, and Johnson will be 58 in a months time – must remember to buy a cake.)