Keir Starmer is weak on tackling institutional racism, imo, because he’s scared to further alienate voters who felt Corbyn was weak on law and order. The gamble is that BAME voters don’t have anywhere else to go on Election Day.
The problem is, we can always stay home.
The problem is, we can always stay home.
Starmer doesn’t have to stop being who he is to get better at this stuff.
All that “I’m a sir and a QC, I’m not scruffy, I’ve met the Queen” thing could actually make him a decent broker between two bits of the Labour coalition who have very different experiences of policing.
All that “I’m a sir and a QC, I’m not scruffy, I’ve met the Queen” thing could actually make him a decent broker between two bits of the Labour coalition who have very different experiences of policing.
You can talk about policing both in terms of injustice and ineffectiveness when it comes to addressing the root causes of violent crime. You can talk about the recommended criminal justice reforms in the Lammy report. Talk about fairness and equality before the law.
It’s really weird that Keir Starmer can’t comfortably and convincingly speak within this lexicon. Issues around race, belonging and equality are only going to become more prominent in the next few years. He’s got to get to grips with this, and fast.
