The Tories had got to the point of concentrating on spinning failure as success rather than aspiring to actual success. They had long since exhausted their playbook and (unsurprisingly) only made things worse at each step.
It's great to have a cabinet that seem to be brimming with ideas and enthusiasm. With money tight there will need to be some losers to fund the winners - for the first time in 14 years I have some hope that those respective choices might be chosen with good conscience and not to please some donors.
Aye. The Tories boxed themselves in through a mix of ideology and siege mentality - and probably a big dollop of denial thrown in.
But as you say, with a Labour government there will be winners and losers. The new government doesn't want to get bogged down in political theatre. They will be willing to listen and to talk, so I hope all sides will be prepared to hold realistic expectations.
They're also the kind of people to promote incompetent people to avoid creating a threat for themselves in the future. Keir just wants good people even if one of them ends up more popular than him.
Kier Starmer turns 62 in September. I imagine he doesn't want to still be doing the job when he's 70. He's probably keen for capable people to get some solid experience, as one of them will need to replace him at some point.
