Slowly but surely, Keir Starmer is making sensible leadership in politics appealing again

The appetite for letting grown-ups run the show has returned – and this time, an eruption of common sense could reroute the Labour Party from its death spiral

For a party that has spent years proving itself a political bear of very little brain, it’s a huge slice of luck that the choice of Labour leader is beginning to look like a no-brainer.

In April, if early membership polling is credible, Keir Starmer will inherit the small task of reviving the movement from its self-inflicted torpor.

This is not to discount his rivals, two of whom are Rebecca Long Bailey. One is Tribune Becky, who writes in that venerable leftie journal of her desire to wage “war against the political establishment”.