The Labour leader is doing well in the polls, but it’s time he laid out a political credo that makes him electable

After grief comes a time to heal. After loss comes acceptance. And after even the messiest divorce a willingness to move on eventually comes.

But it’s not something that can be rushed, as Keir Starmer is discovering. However long we have known it was coming, Britain’s final break-up with the EU still feels like a bereavement for some. Yet there was no time for mourning in the Labour party. A ticking parliamentary clock forced the opposition to choose between voting for the only form of Brexit deal available or taking the electoral consequences. By asking his party to back the deal, Starmer was, in effect, inviting a grieving widow to move on with the body barely cold.

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