Now is the perfect time to be testing his credentials, before a leadership contest gets underway. That’s the whole point, so party members and MPs can choose who best represents them. He keeps u-turning on everything and he’s veered towards the right during this campaign quite a lot, including going back on trans rights and endorsing the home secretary’s immigration reforms. I don’t think left-wing Labour members should just roll over and take it, especially anyone from the groups he’s willing to throw under the bus to gain power.

If we get another centrist who adopts Reflux’s brainless, xenophobic policies as Starmer/Mahmood have done, it won’t matter who’s in office, since we’ll be fucked either way.

Reform and Restore are having this exact kind of “purity testing” and splitting right now, but god forbid the left wants to hold people who govern on their behalf to account and scrutinise their public record and potential future behaviour. Starmer was just an accident after all, no way anyone could have predicted what happened following Labour’s win by default.