He can’t be written off yet. But this was not the speech of a politician reading the national mood
Keir Starmer’s speech this afternoon was billed as his “make or break”, his “turnaround” moment, the biggest hour of his career. As if it would be the talk of the school gates, top of the agenda at every Wetherspoon’s.
As if. In a week when there have been punch-ups on forecourts and soldiers readied to drive petrol tankers, a 90-minute soliloquy by any opposition politician is barely going to register in the public consciousness. That is perfectly natural; far more troubling is how little the public’s concerns impinged on the consciousness of anyone in the conference hall.
