Poor old Keir Starmer. He has scarcely been in power for four months and yet is already wailing about ‘many people in Whitehall’ being ‘comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline’. So as he, Morgan McSweeney and various other Keirleaders all prepare to take on Sir Humphrey, who better to get advice from then a predecessor who tried to fight that battle once before?
For the Wall Street Journal has today released a theatrical offering that will either be an early Christmas thriller – or a belated Halloween horror story, depending on your taste. The 35-minute documentary is called ‘The Prime Minister vs The Blob’ and is intended to be a ‘timely warning about the dangers of power being exercised by unelected and unaccountable individuals and bodies.’
Featuring interviews with Truss and GB News regulars Kwasi Kwarteng and Jacob Rees-Mogg, it takes aim at ‘groupthink from establishment figures across Whitehall, the media, the City and the corporate world.’
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