I would say Sir Keir Starmer has gone from hero to zero in record time if he’d ever actually been seen as a hero.

But he was elected as a default position against an incompetent Conservative party which voters throughout the UK had grown to detest.

Starmer is now living up to his earlier billing, and proving to be an uncharismatic, out-of-touch prime minister.

His tone-deaf speech on Monday where he appeared to link those many folk who are horrified at the treatment of huge numbers of young girls who’ve been subjected to horrendous tales of rape in England, with the far right of politics, was a massive blunder.

Politicians with some honourable exceptions have traditionally been held in fairly low regard but this prime minister is looking increasingly like public enemy number one.

In appearing to use widespread and genuine concerns at the emerging industrial scale rape horror of young girls in England, as a tool to smear folk as right wingers, he’s demeaned the office of PM.

Starmer is among those grey politicians who have risen to the top without discernible talent, and crucially for a PM, lacking sureness of touch.

The question is this – were his asinine comments a PR gaff?

Or is he so aloof and distant from the........

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