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Keir Starmer has been uncovered for the dishonourable man he actually is… however what occurs subsequent will punish us all. The Mandelson saga is sort of a Netflix boxset with so many plot twists and minor characters it’s laborious to maintain up. But the sequence recap boils all the way down to this: the Prime Minister knew the disgraced peer was a incorrect ‘un when he appointed him as US ambassador. The security vetting is a sideshow. It was already a done deal. But the row has revealed Starmer for who he is, a man who turns on everyone around him to save himself. It has not worked. Now every single option for the season finale is bad for him, but, more importantly, worse for us.

Starmer is done. Cabinet ministers are starting to turn on him. Behind closed doors they have failed to back him and, crucially, they have started to publicly distance themselves from him. But will anyone have the guts to challenge him? Labour history suggests not, which leaves us with a zombie government, one with a huge majority but zero ability to make the meaningful changes at a time of economic and social turmoil that are desperately needed.

Starmer could decide that the situation is unsustainable and set out a timetable for his departure and a change of leadership.

That would allow a way back for Andy Burnham, so-called King of the North, by persuading a supporter to make way for him with a safe seat and the PM would no longer have the power to block him. Burnham has the ability to seem human in a way that Starmer cannot and his political apprenticeship in the Blair government means he understands the importance of presentation.

But scratch the surface and there is not much more there, it’s model over substance when the nation wants gravitas. Speaking of which, tax-dodging Angela Rayner is outwardly chopping again on the cocktails in readiness for a tilt on the high job.

But ditching her favorite jugs of “venom” – which includes mixing a bottle of vodka, a bottle of Southern Comfort, ten bottles of Blue WKD and a litre of orange juice – won’t make up for the harm her employment rights invoice has had on the nation’s small companies.

Meanwhile, hapless Health Secretary Wes Streeting continues to be in dispute with the junior medical doctors regardless of providing them an enormous bung simply months after taking the job.

Which leaves Ed Miliband. The man with essentially the most political heft, a completely fleshed out philosophy for governing. Sadly, it’s one which would depart Britain reeling from his obsessional dedication to internet zero at a time when vitality payments are solely going a technique.

Back to Starmer. We have been informed he was the respectable man the nation wanted following the turbulent Tory years however his true character was hiding in plain sight all alongside.

The human rights barrister confirmed he cares little about people and nothing about rights when he dispatched Foreign Office mandarin Olly Robbins in a late night time telephone name with out even letting him give his facet of the story. It was a politically boneheaded transfer and likewise confirmed the PM is pleased to disregard the method when it fits him.

But Keir Starmer was solely ever a fantasy, a mirage within the desert for a determined Labour celebration that could not even win a raffle after Jeremy Corbyn led it into the wilderness.

Along comes a white knight, actually, Sir Keir, former director of public prosecutions, a person in a swimsuit and tie with an air of respectability, and he was on their facet. He rescued the celebration, impressively stemming its miserably anti-semitic laborious left factionalism to make it not solely electable however with a majority most leaders may solely dream of.

But it was all constructed on lies, smoke and mirrors, slippery misdirection. He made ten guarantees to his celebration so they might elect him chief then ditched them after he was profitable.

He promised the nation integrity, probity and decency however ran a “jobs for the boys” operation that, bizarrely, appeared notably beneficial to males who have been associates with paedophiles. He was mired in sleaze from the beginning after taking freebies from a person who was then mysteriously given a go for No 10 regardless of having no position.

On and on it goes, however the worst half is we are going to all now undergo for the failings of this dishonourable PM.