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The shadow Brexit secretary and former chief prosecutor is on course to succeed Jeremy Corbyn. Can he unite a divided party?
When John Erskine signed up a teenage Keir Starmer to the Labour club at Leeds University freshers’ week in 1982, he had hoped to find a new recruit in the factional dogfight raging inside the party.
But he was disappointed. Erskine recalls the young law student’s politics as being of the “non-aligned, conscience-driven left” – something like a kind of political Methodism. Continue reading...