Thinking about Starmer's thinking

The Labour leader has proven both shrewd and lucky. But does he have the right brain to succeed in government?

It is now almost a given that Sir Keir Starmer will be the Prime Minister after the next election. The polls are coalescing, and the Tory rut is different from almost any electoral precedent – deeper and longer lasting than the usual decline of a governing party, especially ones that win it back. It would take a perplexing reversal of fortune to turn th…