Keir Starmer cannot govern as an autocrat

He must acknowledge he won a stunning victory on a stunted vote

At the start of his premiership Keir Starmer appeared to understand that his government would face a massive trust deficit.

You can speculate about the reasons. There are whole libraries of books that do just that. To keep it local, Boris Johnson’s partying in Downing Street while the country suffered, the failure of Brexiters to control immigration and …