‘Very Smart’ Starmer Can Bank on Jamie Dimon for Support

“He hasn’t got it,” said one Labour MP today, railing against Keir Starmer. “He doesn’t cut through on the doorstep. We have got to move, we’ve got to make a move now.”

It marked a familiar stage in the (attempted) removal of a British prime minister, a game we’ve seen play out at least three times in the last decade. Briefings begin anonymously, and/or couched in staid jargon, but their mere existence encourages others. Then momentum reaches a point at which people, by which I mean members of Parliament, feel free to let rip. Dozens were speaking frankly on the airwaves by this morning, telling radio and TV presenters that they’d bit their collective, loyal tongues for long enough but were now insisting on change. A change in personnel at the top, not just rhetoric.