Crying out for Starmer as PM

YOUR front page nailed it: “We’re a great country, we shouldn’t have one of the highest death rates in the world or one of the worst recessions” (Mirror, September 24).

As Labour leader Keir Starmer said, it shouldn’t be like this. He is right. The Prime Minister is out of touch and out of his depth. Everything the Tories have done during this pandemic has been a shambles – in fact, it’s hard to think of one thing they’ve got right.

The crisis is costing hundreds of thousands of jobs and, on top of that, we have the Brexit mess to deal with.

To think we have another four years of these clowns running the country fills me with dread. I hope people will realise their mistake at the next election and allow Keir Starmer to take the helm.

Dave Mellor, Warrington

I am impressed with Sir Keir Starmer. When we are dealing with lives and livelihoods, we need competence, seriousness, honesty and compassion, and he has all these attributes in spades. This is in stark contrast to Prime Minister Boris Johnson who refuses to acknowledge when he makes mistakes so they never get fixed – the test-and-trace system being a prime example. To me, Sir Keir is a prime minister in waiting. I hope he will get that chance.

Amanda Brown, Pulham St Mary, Norfolk

Keir Starmer has been talking a lot of sense lately and I like him a lot. He is most certainly prime minister material. However, to

suggest that the public have done everything right and the Tories are to blame for the new restrictions is not entirely correct.

If he had read the Mirror he would have seen the many pictures of the public crammed on to beaches, young people in crowds in town centres, and a general assumption that the worst was over when lockdown was lifted.

The Government has made many mistakes but these have been compounded by our behaviour. Alan Proudler, Middlesbrough

The Mirror’s Head of Politics Jason Beattie recently asked what purpose Boris Johnson’s TV address served (Mirror, Sept 23)?

I have an inkling. It was made purposely to detract attention from Keir Starmer’s party conference speech.

The new measures certainly pushed Starmer off the front pages. Does this show how nervous he is making Johnson and his advisers? Carl Enever, Chilwell, Notts

I thought people voted for Boris Johnson because he was this great communicator or but Imconfused I’m confused at

all the mixed messages coming from him. Also perhaps because clever Latin quotes were not on the curriculum at my comprehensive.

Get back into work, don’t go to work. We’ve seen no evidence to support face masks, now you must wear one. Eat out to help out but don’t stay out. Get a test, can’t get a test. Still, at least we know all their decisions are being guided by the science.

JR Williams, East London

Never in this country’s history have we been so badly let down by such an ineffectual Government. Or as Churchill might have said, never before in our history have so many been let down by so few.

I will certainly be voting for Keir Starmer to be our next PM.

I Hadfield, Leicester

So, Annalisa Boni thinks Sir Keir Starmer is Tory- lite ( The Big Question, September 23). Were John Smith, Harold Wilson, Clement Attlee and other moderate Labour figures, including James Callaghan and Denis Healey, closet Conservatives? I don’t think so.