Keir’s on to a winner simply by being OTT

He was talking about the Prime Minister. But is he right? Has the Conservative Party given up?

Sir Keir wasn’t the only person to draw that conclusion this week.

In an interview with the Shropshire Star, Lucy Allan, the Tory MP for Telford, told us she did not believe the Conservatives could win the next general election or that they believed they could win.

She is not standing again because of what she has described as a lack of support from the central Conservative Party. The lack of support for her campaign in Telford was evidence of “giving up,” she said.

Just consider that for a moment. Her majority at the last general election was 10,941. So if she is right, then the Tory masterminds in London are writing off seats where they hold majorities approaching 11,000.

It makes you wonder what scale of defeat they are contemplating.

For Sir Keir Starmer, the stars are all beginning to align. The chap’s in dreamland. In Scotland, the door is reopening for Labour thanks to the turmoil which is rocking the Scottish National Party.