It is, I suppose, the topic of the day - and the days to come until he inevitably goes. The Mandelson stuff is bad enough, but I suspect that the investigative trawl of messages and communications with Labour colleagues will be pretty awful. Add that to the by-election and the local elections and its less death by a thousand cuts, and more firing squad territory.
For anyone who is interested in leadership, Starmer is kind of fascinating. I (like many in the Labour party, I suspect) have considered him a decent guy who may be a bit of a vacuum but might get things done in a tedious technocratic way. Hadn’t everyone had enough of the psychodrama of Johnson anyway? ‘Time the grown ups etc’. It really hasn’t worked out like that.
What has always intrigued me about Starmer isn’t actually related to his political rise in the last number of years but activity at an earlier point in his career. I did my PhD on the process of organisational change which saw the RUC become the PSNI - with all the attendant political, institutional and leadership drama around that.
What has always intrigued me about Starmer isn’t actually related to his political rise in the last number of years but activity at an earlier point in his career. I did my PhD on the process of organisational change which saw the RUC become the PSNI - with all the attendant political, institutional and leadership drama around that.
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