Why is he posh all of a sudden?
He's very accomplished but I don't think that makes him posh.
I retract the posh statement, he's no toff, but I think my point still stands. It's all around this persona of being a standard well-to-do inoffensive man.
Yeah, he seems fairly normal and down to earth to me.
Anyhow to kinda answer the question why, the first stage of getting the Tories out is to make them look bad, it's alright having nice policies lined up for the election in 5 years time, but the public won't want change if they think they are doing OK.
Starmer has the training to be on top of multiple briefs, to be able to see where argument is going, and be able to think ahead. Nandy and RLB are not on the same level from what I have seen of them, I can see Boris running his usual act straight through them.
I fear Starmer going down the legalese route. It completely and utterly failed on Brexit. It doesn't work, there isn't some 'gotcha' - and even if there is, it's water off a ducks back. You can't catch Boris out, and even if you do, nobody cares. It seems the go-to tactic. He may well please the Guardian columnists with some of his bits in PMQs, but that doesn't win elections - and I get no sense of him energising non-voters and the youth.
Ed Miliband 2.0 with added support from the Labour Right just isn't a path to victory for me. I think a lot has changed with the last election, Brexit is going to be a cultural issue for a while now, regardless of what happens. Starmer as the core proponent of that tactic for Labour is a bad look. Not only that, but I really can't see him getting those non-voters and youth on board - which is surely the foundation of any possible Labour victory in the next decade.