LABOUR PARTY CHALLENGE

FORMER Prime Minister Harold Wilson once famously said ‘a week is a long time in politics’.

For Boris Johnson his victory in the December General Election must seem a lifetime ago.

The advent of a world-wide pandemic has drawn criticism of his government’s response, despite it being an unprecedented challenge for any UK government.

Notwithstanding his own health problems, and a new addition to his family, Mr Johnson appears to have lost his appetite for effective leadership.

The combination of recent mass demonstrations, and huge numbers of football fans gathering here on Merseyside seems to have driven a coach and horses through the social distancing policy that was aimed to halt the spread of Covid-19.

And for which some might still try and deflect blame on to his Government.

Mr Johnson now faces the renewed challenge of Labour led by Sir Keir

Starmer, the ex-Director Of Public Prosecutions. It was reported last weekend that he had been holding meetings with former leader Mr Blair.

Both belong to the New Labour Londonbased clique that still hold sway in the quango industry that runs vast areas of public life irrespective of which party is in Government.

A revised set of Blair/ Starmer policies and spin, could push the Tories out at the next election.

Given there was barely the width of a cigarette paper between Blair Labour and the Tories, this might spell conflict between the Corbynites and Starmerite wings of Labour, before they try to end the near 20-year exile from Government.