How can his tenure end? The Party rules make it impossible, unless he’s persuaded to resign, perhaps next May.

Or he could introduce a radical budget, sack some poisonous, high profile advisers (pour encourager les autres), promote some basic socialism and ‘lead’ a proper government with some backbone against the massed ranks of the reformed right-wing establishment. It’s not too late

Starmer - elected as leader of the Labour party on a tissue of lies, enacting right and far right policies that the majority of people who lent Labour their vote last year find abhorrent. He and Labour will never square that circle, whoever runs the party.