Starmer as a barrister will do his homework and have answers to her debating points in a way other opponents wouldn't.
Pulled this from a comment further upthread but this did make me laugh.
Starmer has spectacularly failed to anticipate basic Qs he's been unable to answer & still thinks he can avoid falling off the fence he's been straddling, as long as he can avoid being in the same place as 'difficult' women, like Rosie Duffield. He can even go as far as to launch an election campaign in Kent & to make sure he's not photographed with Duffield, not invite his only Kent sitting MP.
He's been spectacularly dishonest about his handling of Duffield's situation & done feck all to reign in the misogynistic wankers he surrounds himself with.
He can't so much as fart without having focus group approval.
My current MP is a useless twat with only a 5% marginal vote over Labour. I'd consider voting Labour just to get rid of her. But Starmer's spineless inability to be honest or even speak with women about legitimate issues & concerns over gender bollocks is stopping me. I'll probably spoil my ballot but my vote would be there if he wasn't such a terrible politician who has zero leadership instincts & outsources his thinking to focus groups.
The idea that, as a barrister, he'd suddenly develop the skills he's failed to demonstrate since he became leader, and trounce KJK in a debate is laughable. He cannot communicate in the plain factual manner KJK speaks in & she wouldn't have to do much to make him^^ look like the squirming dimwit he becomes whenever he's faced with Qs on his position on gender bollox.
He's clearly going to have a better chance of becoming the next PM but I think he's going to be no better than the current & recent disastrous Tory leadership.