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Starmer will be centrism’s last chance
Voters need to see normal politics working for them again. Keir Starmer not only carries the dreams of a country demanding change but the hope of all who fear what follows if he fails.
Robert ShrimsleyBritish political commentatorClement Attlee had the last laugh on those who dismissed him as a dull mediocrity.
In later life, the leader of Labour’s great postwar government composed a limerick about himself. “There were few who thought him a starter. There were many who thought themselves smarter. Yet, he ended PM, CH and OM, an Earl and a Knight of the Garter.”
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