Janice Turner in the Times sums up Starmer's win:
A weary electorate looked at this blandly decent, demonstrably competent man, compared him with Tory hucksters, gamblers, pocket-liners, clowns, criminals and careless ideologues, then concluded quite simply: “He’ll do.”
one observation: of the betting favourites to be the next Tory leader, there's no 'read PPE at Oxford' candidates. seems mildly ironic that PPE is partly responsible for the demise of the Oxbridge PPE crew:
Shocking that all the Returning Officers buggered off on holiday just before the election, forcing all those poor Acting Returning Officers to stand in for them.
The Reform Party heralds a new age of private companies getting employees elected to Parliament. It'll be interesting in 2029 to see the Barclays party forming a coalition government alongside Shell and the Microsoft Alliance
