What I said in 2023 remains pretty much the same.
He had my backing in wiping out the Tories, and if I thought he had a hope in hell of keeping out reform he’d have my backing for that but without wishing to crow, ‘absolute empty husk of a man’ couldn’t have proved any more accurate in my view.
Unfortunately he was happy to bend himself into a figure 8 for the Labour Together faction of the party to get the job and sadly appears to have nothing else. He’s alienated the entire left faction of the party, the people who would vote for a goose if it was wearing a Labour rosette, and is now entirely reliant on the centre, a vast section sure, but many of which are traditionally Lib Dems or Tories and after a one off may well return there. Labour Together/ Blue Labour has been a disaster so far and he is either unwilling or unable to change course (the unable being perhaps that for a decade or so they’ve built a machine to run both the government and the party wider. It took years to dismantle New Labour it was so entrenched so I could understand that.)
But he’s got no one around who isn’t of the Labour Together faction, look at Mandleson fanboy Streeting, (the health secretary who had almost 60% of his private donations come from people with interest in the private heath industry) posturing for the job already, which is perhaps why i suspect if they did a complete change of course they might, as a government, be able to spend the next few years winning enough people back to scrape over the line, but they won’t. It will be full course ahead whether the husk at the top is Starmer or A.N. Other.