Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer

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Above all, this is a book that should be read by anyone who wants to understand how someone who has too often been underestimated or dismissed as dull, now intends to bring similar change to Britain. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. These make for interesting reading both in decision making and Starmer's view and causes/cases he supported.

We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. He was effectively hand-picked by his predecessor Ken MacDonald for the role of Director of Public Prosecutions and it was here that his passion for restructuring and focusing on the minutiae of a bureaucratic machine came to prominence.

Whilst Starmer and his Progress chums thought they were playing a blinder, the electorate saw them, and alas the Labour Party, as effectively not knowing whether to shit or get off the pot as far as Brexit was concerned. The only option was to propose bold policies, like a progressive Leave deal, that could break through the negative press coverage.

His response,” Ashcroft concludes, “has done a fine job in convincing me that he thinks it would be perfectly acceptable for him to move into 10 Downing Street without a book of this kind asking some probing questions about him.All of this is explained in great detail and points to Starmer one day being remembered, at best, as an arcane pub quiz answer. The Forde Report was commissioned to look into the contents of the leak file: it was supposed to report back early in 2021. Lisa Nandy wrote a book on levelling up that was so compelling it drew her opposite number, Michael Gove, to the launch party at Hatchards. Because ‘it is far easier for a governing party to rally undecided voters back to its banner than it is to win over those who have defected to another party’, Labour’s tactic of ‘gaining by default’ may reach its limit once campaigning begins in earnest.

I was led to seeing parallels with the current Conservative party (those in Government at the time of writing), where a break-away group, possibly with Johnson, Patel and others, possibly including Nigel Farage, created a new right-wing party.The first is the author’s own narcissism, which leaves him blankly unable to understand a worldview other than his own, mystified by behaviour and life choices that will strike your average pinko as completely normal. This book should shake the labour party to its foundations as it reveals Starmer's secret anti-UK workers double life. On climate change, incidentally, Starmer's Labour will see the planet burn before it will regulate the free market for the sake of change.

Both in Parliament and in media interviews Starmer struggled to connect with the floating or even the traditional Labour voter. If like me, you were puzzled that just a couple of years after gaining thirty extra seats and a nine per cent swing in the 2017 General Election, Jeremy Corbyn led Labour to its worst General Election defeat since the 1930's, you'll find many of the answers in Oliver Eagleton's The Starmer Project. In an unusual departure from the norms of the genre, Michael Ashcroft begins his unauthorised biography of Keir Starmer, Red Knight, with a lengthy peroration about himself. It's a quick read, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in the Labour Party or British politics.K. Labour Party, a notoriously factional organisation, and the number of stars reviewers award it will probably tell you more about the individual reviewer’s political stance than the book itself. At its heart will be a portrait of a leader and a gripping narrative account of four years that will determine Starmer’s, Labour’s and the country’s future in 2024. They will put forward vague and nice sounding promises drawn from the nattering of focus groups and that will be the extent of it. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.