"..there is hope ahead with the arrival of Remain."At the last election just four-and-a-half years ago, Starmer was all for remain, and seeking to find a way to frustrate the will of the electorate as expressed in the referendum, while campaigning for Corbyn to be Prime Minister. Now he has expelled Corbyn from the party he once led, and is keeping very quiet on what he wants to do regarding the UK's future relationship with the EU. His performance in the debate was unconvincing, and he notably failed to respond to Sunak's accusation that he was unwilling to spell out what he would do if he became PM. other than his spiteful taxing of private schools and reckoning a new Border Force would stop the small boat crossings (tried that, didn't work) and a new state-owned energy company (another chance for an inefficient public monopoly). Voting Labour and making Starmer prime minister is a leap into the unknown, and I suspect that if he does win the election, over the next five years a lot of people who voted Labour are going to wish they hadn't. If Labour is the answer, it must be a damn silly question.
Richard Greenhough ● 263d