Farewell Keir Starmer, a terrible politician whom we desperately wanted to be something more | Zoe Williams

‘U-turn’ doesn’t do justice to the myriad ways he found to break a pledge. Now the former PM is resigning as an MP, why did I have such high hopes? Keir Starmer exits the British political stage as he entered it: doing the exact opposite of the thing he said he was going to do. It’s only 10 weeks since he pledged to re

When he was elected Labour leader, he was handed a chalice so full of poison nobody could have predicted what Keir Starmer managed to achieve - and for that he should be remembered with honour