If Starmer doesn’t quit the Labour Party is doomed

This is crash and burn politics, pure and simple (Picture: REUTERS/Jack Taylor)

‘You don’t change the pilot during the flight because of a bit of turbulence,’ Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said today, in the face of Labour’s dismal and depressing showing at the local elections. 

But the seismic nature of last night’s results can’t be described as mere turbulence. The...