Starmer's not bad but it doesn't help that he has to tread a path between marketable policies and detractors in his own party. When he was giving Johnson what for at PMQ's Rayner was sitting next to him looking as of she was sucking a very bitter lemon. Perhaps she was just pensive.
I don't think Starmer is very good at consulting colleagues, possibly he's not 'political' enough for his job. He strikes me as a sound technocrat rather than a leader.
It's a bit of a cliche but you do seem to get the yin and the yang with charismatic leaders, outstanding qualities but big blind spots or character flaws. Perhaps it's something to do with risk taking. It's hard to imagine Starmer indulging in risky behaviour, which might make appear boring - the famously grey John Major was a buccaneer in comparison.
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