Kier Starmer - what he'll be like as a PM

I think he will try too hard to please all factions, and please no-one in the process.

A sensible, mature and measured adult who will be a better administrator and leader.

We have had a series of entitled dangerous clowns in government who think that a leader is someone who shouts louder than everyone else, focuses on pleasing the right wing press and constantly lie to the public, making up stats and facts as they go.

About time we got back to grown-up politics and have people in charge who put the country, not themselves, first and have some integrity.

Yes there seems to be on here

What will test him are his own policies which won’t be workable and I wonder how some voters will react to that and what he’ll do about it

I remember the minimum wage hysteria, including a particularly animated discussion between John Prescott and Michael Heseltine on Question Time about it. Then they introduced it and….. everyone just cracked on, except with more pay.

This a very fawning article but he sounds fine. I don’t agree with his politics though. There is a bit of evangelical zeal about some of the posts on Keir Starmer on mn. He will certainly have to be a miracle worker to sort this country out.

I’m sure he’s a pleasant enough man but in my opinion he lacks the courage and situational awareness to be a great prime minister.

After Johnson, and to a lesser extent, Blair, I never want a “charismatic” prime minister again. Dull and hardworking is what they should be, not comedians.

What evidence is there that he would be anyone's puppet? He's worked hard to move the party back towards the middle ground. This just sounds like scaremongering from someone who doesn't want a Labour government.

Oh do stop! My very first comment was clearly at the OP for spelling the man's name wrong. It's not hard.

Knowing he doesn't even have to do as well as Corbyn did to win the election must be one real source of encouragement for Starmer.

Another has to be not having to contend with that blonde buffoon spouting garbage about "getting the thing done" that voters were too thick to not get sucked by in all over again after being duped by the same liar's "bonanza for the NHS" bus first time around.

Truth is, irrespective of all the pontificating here and elsewhere by supporters spouting opinion and him yet to do a single day in government, all Starmer's shown himself capable of thus far is not being as bad as Sunk & Co and not standing on establishment/media toes. Some might even call his actions appeasement.

@MoonshineSon thank you - exactly.
I was reading that just before the 97 election there were rumours that Blair would cause the car industry to collapse and that introducing the minimum wage would mean millions unemployed and businesses going bankrupt. I think scaremongering is a tactic.

I also admire someone who is prepared to take on the dreadful mess created in the last 14 years. He could easily retire in comfort. He's prepared to make a difference.

Whereas I want my grandchildren to have access to clean rivers and seas to swim in where they don't have to dodge actual shit.
A health service that is fit for purpose. Schools that don't have demoralised teachers who have been treated with contempt by the government.
Housing they can afford to actually live in and buy.
An economy that is steady and strong.
Politicians that aren't narcissists and believe in creating a more just society that supports those right at the bottom more than those right at the top.
Less blatant corruption and cronyism at the heart of government.
For my granddaughters to feel like they have a future that is positive, that will include safe spaces but also the ability to afford to live a decent life, go to university without being broke forever, afford to have children if they want in a world that climate change has hopefully been addressed. Have a court system that deals effectively with violence against women, that has prisons that rather being so full they create more problems than they solve. Keir won't sort out all of the above but he will at least not want to add to make it worse.

Competence is a really refreshing word for a prospective leader of our government. Not heard that description for a long time.

I didn't spell his name incorrectly. The OP asked a question and e and i was swapped around in his name by them.

Nit picking OP error rather than contributing is the pants of mn.

Haven't read the article or the thread, but I suspect: competent.

It's been a while, I'm quite looking forward to competence.

@Whatafustercluck that is really encouraging.

These are my feelings, too.

I really don't get that sense at all. He's removed a lot of them and seems to be a strong but fair leader who knows what needs to be done to win and get things done.

He appears to be a sensible, competent and highly intelligent man.

If another Conservative government is your preference, fine. He's the only alternative though.

If it was a personality contest he would absolutely have my vote but I'm voting for the values I hold and what I want to society to look like. Sadly I can't align myself with labour on that front.

Women with penises.

That tells me all I need to know about what sort of prime minister he will be. Not someone I wish to be running the country whilst my grandchildren are growing up believing all this rubbish.

Unlike many recent Prime Ministers Keir Starmer has experience of running a large scale organisation, of managing people. I will have policy differences with a Labour government, a lot less than the current one, but many things about government are not party political. I want to see competence and feel this may happen.

Although it is unintentionally funny. They're so scared of Starmer.