However distinguished Keir Starmer might have been in his previous career, he is not an experienced politician, and he does not think like one. He thinks like a civil servant. Neutral, at least in his own mind, about government policy, he wants the eventual legislation to be as tightly written as possible. But nothing more than that. And that is not enough in a potential Prime Minister.
It is almost comical to imagine that, for example, the Food Standards Agency might be empowered to authorise one to commit murder. Yet last night, the House of Commons voted for precisely that, and the Official Opposition abstained.
What is the point of the Liberal Democrats or of the Alliance Party, if they will not even vote against the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill? What have the SNP or the Greens become, if they cannot see that they and their supporters would be prime targets?
And why bother having two parties, if they are going to defend even each other's illegal wars? Ben Wallace has been rowing back from his perfectly accurate description of the last Labour Government's wars as illegal. He has been got at. He was right the first time, and everyone knows it.
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