 and be 20 points ahead in the polls. It's a remarkable feat, Alice Perry, a campaigner for the Labour Party in London, tells me. Some critics say the party is now too centrist, and that Starmer has been ruthless towards more left-wing Labour candidates. Perry doesn't disagree. Keir Starmer is ruthless, and that is a positive quality, because if he hadn't been ruthless, he wouldn't have been able to reform the Labour Party in the way that was necessary.