Some of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s closest advisers have been asking this week “Who runs this government?” The precedents are not good when this question rears its head — when Conservative PM Edward Heath asked it before a 1974 snap general election,

T his time last year, Sir Keir Starmer was touring Britain during a general-election campaign with a simple message: “Stop the chaos.” The uncharismatic leader of the Labour Party offered little in the way of ideology.