A simple way for Keir Starmer to help Labour reject Corbynism

It’s over then. After almost five years, Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as Labour leader has come to a close. Corbyn ended as he led: with the petulance and ill grace that has characterised his political career.

As Corbyn slopes to the backbenches to resume a life of fruitless campaigning, Keir Starmer steps up to replace him. He faces a mammoth task: rebuilding Labour as a credible electoral force. This is necessary for both party and country. All of us, wherever we stand on the political spectrum, need a functioning opposition. But make no mistake: if Starmer is to make Labour palatable once more, both politically and indeed morally, he will need to reject his predecessor’s foreign policy – and quickly.

Corbynism had a warped view of the world, with Britain’s role in it necessarily warped, too. Rejecting Corbyn’s foreign policy means rejecting a wholesale belief system which infects much of Labour’s governing apparatus.