Sir Keir is simply not in the same class when it comes to leading

METHINKS your correspondent Geoffrey Brooking is getting carried away with his recent claim that Sir Keir Starmer is leading the most radical changes in the Labour Party since the days of Tony Blair, hoping it will lead to victory in the General Election.

I think the problem for Labour is simply that the combination of Sir Keir and Angela Rayner is not in the same class as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Blair and Brown were skilful politicians with a vision who tamed the unions, the Labour left and convinced the rest of us that there was a Third Way.

Sir Keir is a good prosecutor – he prosecuted Boris out of Downing Street – but I don’t see anything to inspire me as a politician. In fact, I don’t think he deserves to win the next election because he has spent so long ‘sitting on the fence’ with major issues, including his approach to the unions and the strikes: he daren’t criticise them because they are his paymasters, or support them completely in case he loses votes from the rest of us who are fed up with the strikes.

Instead, all he does is blame the Tories for everything without ever coming up with an alternative.

I see that Mr Brooking is now calling for an early General Election. Could that be because he knows that Labour are peaking too soon and that a lot can happen in the next year or so?

Rishi is already outperforming Sir Keir in PMQs and Starmer will surely pay the price for being less popular than his party. Wes Streeting anyone? Now he does have ideas.

I would vote for Labour if they reinstated Connexions and the Careers Service because there are thousands of young people out there who are getting no independent careers advice, making wrong choices and we also badly need to get the NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) back on track as doing nothing and Univer- sal Credit has become a lifestyle choice for too many.

D Scadding Bristol