Analysis: those who hoped the internecine infighting of the Corbyn era was over have been sorely disappointed in the last three days
In the aftermath of Labour’s crushing general election defeat in 2019, Keir Starmer’s appeal to despondent party members and MPs was – as one said at the time – as a “comfort blanket”.
Decent, serious and unencumbered by baggage from Labour’s factional forever-war, many hoped he would polish the party’s image and build an election-winning machine, without ditching many of the policies of the Jeremy Corbyn years.
