Starmer on the Brink

As I write this, British cabinet ministers are gathering in Downing Street for what is surely the most fateful moment of Keir Starmer’s premiership. Yesterday, over 60 Labour backbencher MPs AND the Home Secretary publicly called on him to quit in the wake of Labour’s disastrous performance at the local elections, the culmination of a torrid period of missteps and mistakes defined by his cataclysmic error of judgement in appointing Peter Mandelson to be US ambassador. There are...