'What might we want and expect from the new Westminster leader of the SNP in the Commons? For starters, someone who doesn’t have their strings tugged by HQ' // Letters
For starters, someone who doesn’t have their strings tugged by HQ. Someone with the courage to appoint a team on merit without regard to previous personality clashes. Someone, above all, who hasn’t gone native. Westminster has a very nasty habit of giving people such a sense of their own importance in that “venerable” chamber that they quite forget why they were sent there in the first place. Clue: it wasn’t to get comfy and overly cosy with other MPs from different parties.
Most of all, the changing of the guard at Westminster will make us focus anew on what kind of leadership we want, and which variety can get results.was a swashbuckler and a gambler. His style always had a whiff of danger. Provided he hit the jackpot often enough, his adherents were happy. As witness his manoeuvring David Cameron into a referendum. Yet also losing it. And we needn’t re-rehearse the sad saga of his falling out with his one-time ally and successor.
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are actually quite similar personalities inasmuch as both are terrified of the more radical elements of their own party. Starmer is so focused on his tribe finally gaining power that there is no pre-election boat he would dream of rocking; no once-cherished promise he will not drop from the manifesto.
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