THE most astute political pundits in the world – the bookies – will tell you that Labour are odds-on to win the next General Election.
Thursday’s three by-elections have done nothing to change those odds, despite the Tories just about hanging on to Boris Johnson’s vacated seat in Uxbridge.
Labour can smell power now.
So it was fitting that Tony Blair chose this week to rise from his crypt and bestow his patronising blessing on Keir Starmer at a Future Of Britain conference.
Because if Starmer does become Prime Minister, he will find that many of our most intractable problems – graduates who cannot find a job, our addiction to skilled foreign workers, the mounting housing crisis – go all the way back to the catastrophic mistakes of Tony Blair’s ten-year reign.