So farewell, Sir Keir Starmer: hapless, charmless, gormless, and gumptionless, you will not be long remembered.

A robotic, socially awkward prime minister who was all talk but little action, and who swayed in the breeze desperately trying to cling to an office he never had the talent or ability to occupy.

Seen rightly or wrongly by many folk as someone who adopted a two-tier approach to justice, Starmer, who had been a human rights lawyer and was once head of the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales, too often rushed to comment on contentious issues, when his lawyers’ training and position as PM should have told him to maintain silence until all the facts were established.

Starmer clung to his post like a drowning man clings to a life raft as the sharks circled around him.

Sir Keir Starmer had no discernible beliefs or understanding of people

The collective name for a gathering of sharks is........

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