Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. We begin with Pippa Crerar of The Guardian speculating on how Labour leader Keir Starmer would govern if, as expected, the Labour Party wins huge majorities in Thursday’s elections in the United Kingdom. Putting the champagne on ice is not the Labour leader’s style.
“It’s definitely not his thing,” says one shadow cabinet minister. “If he’s even tempted to have a drink on election night, it would be somebody handing him a bottle of beer.” “He will govern in the way in which he’s run the Labour party,” says one shadow cabinet minister.
“He’s no-drama Starmer. He’s very methodical and analytical. He just gets on with things, he wants to fix problems.
” Tanya Gold of POLITICO Europe examines the reasons that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was destined for failure. Sunak was the good Tory who would unite the right after the Truss calamity, and handsome too. He was, at 42, the youngest prime minister in two centuries.
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..] His politics are boiler-plate Thatcherite economics, the vague promise of AI , and pro-Brexit patriotism, which is meaningless if you have no wider vision.
Beyond that, he has no answers to Britain’s woes. If he inherited a ruin — which will be his post-election narrative — he has done nothing to rebuild it. The shine of Sunak was only ever his not being someone else: .
