So it seems as though Sir Keir Starmer’s race is run.

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Wes Streeting’s tanks are on his lawn - and like the Germans in 1945, he’s beset on both his left and his right with no way out.

For all the cheers that you’ll hear from political opponents when he gets the lectern out for the last time, I would like to pose something that many should bear in mind in the coming weeks and months: you’re going to miss him when he’s gone.

Starmer’s cardinal sin was to be in hock to his own backbenchers.

He told us what we were getting. Right from the get-go, Sir Keir warned the hardworking men and women of Britain that it would get worse before it gets better. Many scoffed at a lack of optimism, said he was “talking the country down”, and those babbling children should be........

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