Recent election campaigns have been short, 3 week events; this one is a full six weeks with 4 weeks still to go. The merit of that decision is that it has given the Conservatives and commentators the chance to subject Sir Keir Starmer and his acolytes to the scrutiny to which they need to be subjected. The Labour leader has spent the past 4 years assiduously making as few policy commitments as possible, desperate to protect his party’s large lead in the polls and hoping to coast to victory on the back of soothing platitudes. He knows that in the wings stand the hard Left who yearn for a return…
