It is clear that Keir’s mission to restore trust in public life has only made preliminary progress. Nonetheless, something very like a political genius is emerging from the chrysalis of his first months in office.
It is well known that the older people get, the more conservative they become. Keir’s strategy of releasing prisoners, giving asylum seekers the vote, and encouraging illegal immigration is now matched on the other side of the register by helping on their way the hobbling, wobbling, trembling, Tory-voting, benefit-scrounging, NHS-devouring pensioner population.
