As noted here previously, the recent British election produced the anomaly of a huge Labour Party majority in the House of Commons with barely a third of the total vote, barely above Labour’s share in the wipe-out election of 2019. And Labour has installed the mild-mannered Kier Starmer as PM, though beneath the benevolent veneer of Starmer and his cabinet is a current of deep leftism. Their ideas are not popular, and but for the appalling malpractice of the Tory Party over the last few years, they would likely not have won.

Starmer’s approval ratings are already in free fall, and Owen Winter notes that it is not even close.