Were I sure this was about me alone, I’d hardly bother to mention it: but I may be typical of quite a few others. If so, it’s a touch too early for the Tories to abandon hope.
Last Saturday I wrote in the Times about Sir Keir Starmer, suggesting he lacks the voice or personal command of a prime minister who will need to bully the left into division lobbies and knock warring heads together within his party. Some 900 online readers responded beneath that column. A few agreed with me but the overwhelming majority simply raged against the present government, not a few suggesting that anything would be better than this.
The sound of Starmer is statist, controlling, finger-wagging, even if the words are of moderation
Another observation was made by many: that I personally was ‘reverting to type’. A few readers suggested I had been whipped into line by Rupert Murdoch or his editors.
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