The consensus before Keir Starmer’s speech to the Labour party conference was that he needed to make ‘the speech of his life’. He did so. It was not the greatest conference speech I’ve seen, far from it, but it was the best Starmer has made and not because it was shot through with content. However, it had an argument, it laid out a narrative and some dividing lines for British politics over the next four years and it went much further than before to tell us both what Starmer is for and what he is against. In that sense it was an unlikely triumph, popular in the hall and one which lays to rest, for a few months at least, whether Starmer should continue as Prime Minister.

The leadership question will pass into abeyance but it is likely to rear its head again after May’s local elections

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