If Starmer doesn’t quit the Labour Party is doomed
Starmer needs to do the selfless thing and put the national interest first. Let him write his own obituary: he can leave now and still be the man who got Labour into government one term after the worst defeat since the 1930s.
Who made it not scary to vote Labour; who got rid of Jeremy Corbyn; who delivered a landslide.
Better that than being remembered by history as the man who gave the keys to Number 10 to Nigel Farage.
I’ve long been a proponent of Andy Burnham. When asked who should lead the Labour Party if Starmer resigned, 17% of Britons gave the Greater Manchester Mayor as their answer (second-highest choice Angela Rayner was barely visible behind him at 5%).
Burnham is the only politician to consistently hold a positive net favourability rating at +6. Politics is about popularity and he has it in spades– he polls ahead of Farage (and anyone else) on whether he would make a good PM.
I’m not from the left or right of politics; I just want the best for the country and the Labour Party. I don’t have a faction – I never have. I believe in evidence over ideology and take no joy in making predictions that seemingly come true about Labour.
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In fact, I want them to bounce back, for the sake of all of those that rely on a Labour government to protect, embolden and support them in their lives and their ambitions.
I want them to deliver a programme that puts fairness back into communities and a new social contract that means people who play by the rules can get on in life.
But that is a change that cannot come while Starmer is in charge.
The Prime Minister needs to do the right thing and resign – and MPs need to tell him to do so too.
Those who don’t will be complicit in the demise of the Labour Party and the handing of Downing Street to Farage.
After that: it’s Burnham or bust.
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