Why Keir Starmer is defiant – and what happens next

Starmer is trying to see off the twin threats of Andy Burnham (left) and Wes Streeting (right) (Picture: PA/Getty)

‘Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough.’

It is perhaps fitting that for football fanatic Keir Starmer, he’s effectively challenged his rivals in the manner one might hear on the terraces at any given weekend around the country. 

It is doubly fitting that for this most lawyerly of lawyers, long criticised for obsessing over details over delivery, for prioritising rules over rhetoric, has chosen to hide behind the brick wall of process. 

That word has, arguably, been the watchword of the Read Entire Article