Ignore the bond markets! Balance the Budget with an imaginary wealth tax! Say that Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth! Just put Andy Burnham in charge of everything! The solutions that some MPs and even ministers put forward to Britain’s problems can be laughable in their naivety.
Labour activists left Liverpool generally happy with the way that Sir Keir Starmer saw off the immediate challenge to his leadership, sending Burnham packing before the conference was even over. They liked the way the Prime Minister is now taking the fight to Reform UK, and the progressive-friendly policies announced at the event.
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There is at least one exception to this catalogue of mediocrity: Health Secretary Wes Streeting. The Blairite street-fighter was one of the few top Cabinet ministers not moved in the recent reshuffle – and quite rightly, given he is actually making a success of his brief.
“A lot of ministers were sucked into the civil service and lost touch with the party,” one senior Labour figure complained this week. “They need to be more political sometimes and know when to say no to civil servants.”
Outside his Whitehall brief, too, Streeting shows a boldness that some of his colleagues – not least Starmer himself – cannot match.
Streeting has also become a loud voice criticising Israel’s actions in Gaza, despite his reputation as one of the more pro-Israel voices in Labour, and openly denounced Donald Trump’s claims that paracetamol could be causing autism.
And he is not the only one – Mahmood, who has just been elected chair of Labour’s governing body, more or less admitted this week that she harbours leadership ambitions of her own. Asked whether she fancies a tilt at the top job, she responded that any politicians who deny that they want to become prime minister are “basically lying”.
But it is a double-edged sword: there are now at least two members of the Cabinet who look like plausible answers to that great question – if not Keir, then who?
And if MPs decide that there is a solution to the leadership quandary, it opens up a possible future of Labour without Starmer.
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