Oh dear. Only Sir Keir Starmer could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory following his excitable photo op with Natalie Elphicke, a former Tory MP who has defected to Labour, his own party are up in arms about it. Given that Elphicke is a former member of the Brexit-loving European Research Group, a supporter of the Rwanda Plan and on a whole range of issues, she makes Attila the Hun look like a raging leftie. But Starmer has never allowed principle to trump political opportunity, which is why he has welcomed her into the party. Many on his backbenches and in the party are unhappy. Well get …