Analysis of Keir Starmer's Leadership Decision

With hindsight, given that everything's happened in the last few months,

was it the wrong decision of Labour MPs to get Keir Starmer to go?

Well I certainly wasn't part of it and I counseled for a long time,

keep cool heads, let's end the headless chicken season as I called it,

because people were panicking and in the wake of the local government

elections they were panicking with good reason.

And the interesting thing is,

and I don't think enough attention has been paid to this,

when people say why did Keir Starmer stand out,

no surrender, I'll be here, I'll fight whoever comes on,

and within hours had announced he was going.

And the reason is very, very basic and it's very, very decent.

Up until that by election result and the evident scale of

support for Andy, some of it long standing, some of it more recent, but huge scale,

Keir had thought that his abhorrence of chaos meant that he had to

stay in order to calm things, let the dust settle, have his discussions and

get on with the real business of running the country.

When that scale of resistance and opposition became apparent,

he realized that far from preventing the chaos by staying,

he would actually generate it.

And because he's the kind of guy he is,

he was big enough to say I'm going.