Keir Starmer playing happy families with Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham at a primary school in Ashton-under-Lyne last month.Next Thursday’s elections have not even happened yet, but Labour’s post-mortem is already well underway.
The party is forecast to lose nearly 2,000 councillors across England as voters deliver a damning verdict on Keir Starmer’s time in No.10 so far.
Labour will also suffer humiliating defeat in Scotland and Wales to further compound the prime minister’s misery.
It is therefore unsurprising that the thoughts of Labour MPs are already consumed by what will come next.
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