This intriguing anonymous comment has been left under the last post:
Rayner was probably brought down because she would have beaten Streeting in a leadership contest. Streeting needs to stand unopposed because no one outside Westminster likes him. He couldn't oust Starmer while Rayner was in play. Starmer is now far more vulnerable.
Wes Streeting would uphold the most sacred article of the unwritten Constitution, that no male product of a mixed secondary school must ever become Prime Minister. Look it up. That has never happened.
You're right, that's never happened.
ReplyDeleteBut then, nor has an incumbent Prime Minister ever lost his or her seat, as Streeting is on course to do.
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