It takes more than Cillit Bang to shift a bad Labour chief

SPECULATION intensifies about the supposedly imminent demise of Sir Keir Starmer.

- Leo McKinstry

But the inevitability of his early exit is contradicted by three facts.

First, amid all his many inadequacies, Starmer is ferociously competitive, with a streak of ruthlessness about his own career.

Second, the Labour Party has always been sentimental about its leaders and, unlike the Tories, has no mechanism for the swift dispatch of a dud.