The Fatal Choice

It is a simple matter to identify the moment when it went wrong for Keir Starmer.

Three months after Labour’s landslide victory, the Prime Minister replaced Sue Gray with Morgan McSweeney as Downing Street Chief of Staff.

Long-term readers of this Diary will recall that, by then, I had already predicted the defenestration of Gray at the hands of the McSweeney faction. When it duly happened, I stated that her departure marked “a disaster for Labour but eve