To do that, a less false kind of unity is required. This isn’t durable as a long-term leadership strategy and it won’t convince the country that Labour is changing under new management. “But unity around what?” The worry about Mr Starmer was that he might opt for a fudgy, phoney version of unity that sought to please every faction, including the hard leftists who brought Labour into such awful disrepute with the public. During Keir Starmer’s campaign for the Labour leadership, one of the party’s most senior figures said to me that it was all very well to promise unity.
