Two points: a) Starmer has had the shortest honeymoon since George Eliot but fortunately has not ended up in the canal; b) Last month was the 60th anniversary of both Wilson's first win and my joining the Labour Party for the first time. I remember Wilson (in the fashion set by Kennedy) laid great stress on the importance of his first 100 days. In the event those days proved to be a succession of disasters culminating in the loss of the Leyton by-election, a 'safe seat' that was meant to return his Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker to the Commons after he lost in the infamous Smethwick election in 1964, yet 14 months later he won a landslide victory with a majority of 96. Starmer has got four and a half years yet.
The really interesting thing on the personal popularity chart is the Cameron is the only successor of Blair who had a Premiership longer than Blair’s period (and even then only a fortnight longer)
The new Mayoralties in Lincolnshire and Hull + East Yorkshire next year are going to be extremely interesting. Reform could conceivably take one of them
Two points: a) Starmer has had the shortest honeymoon since George Eliot but fortunately has not ended up in the canal; b) Last month was the 60th anniversary of both Wilson's first win and my joining the Labour Party for the first time. I remember Wilson (in the fashion set by Kennedy) laid great stress on the importance of his first 100 days. In the event those days proved to be a succession of disasters culminating in the loss of the Leyton by-election, a 'safe seat' that was meant to return his Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker to the Commons after he lost in the infamous Smethwick election in 1964, yet 14 months later he won a landslide victory with a majority of 96. Starmer has got four and a half years yet.
The really interesting thing on the personal popularity chart is the Cameron is the only successor of Blair who had a Premiership longer than Blair’s period (and even then only a fortnight longer)
The new Mayoralties in Lincolnshire and Hull + East Yorkshire next year are going to be extremely interesting. Reform could conceivably take one of them