En Bridget Jones’s Diarythe character he plays Colin Firth —un guiño de Helen Fielding al Mr. Darcy de Jane Austen— represented classic and prudent masculinity: educated, restrained, sober, predictable, not prone to giddiness and excesses.
Women instinctively feel more attracted to men as bad as women. Daniel Cleaverembodied Hugh Grant.
To the British First Minister, Keir Starmerit was always accompanied by a not-forgotten rumor that Fielding was inspired by it, including a young and recently adopted Londoner to draw the latest inspiration from Bridget.
Starmer never tired of being the anachronistic Mr. Darcy, a castaway, a time traveler living in a bad world.
In an age of channel politics, algorithms that reward constant outrage and bottom-up populism, the current occupant of Downing Street is much lower.
Ursula von der Leyen welcomes Keir Starmer on his visit to the European Commission headquarters in Brussels
The main advantage is technical competence.
His biography is a rare example of meritocracy in the caste system that is British politics.
His nature is moderate, pragmatic and professional.
And you have no greater ambition than your vocation of public service.
Starmer was the first in his family to go to university — remarkable contrasts with cantera de The Eton boyssince David Cameron hasta Boris Johnsonwhich traditionally traverses the pasillos of Whitehall.
From the elite University of Leeds, she rose in prestige to become one of the most respected abogados for human rights in the country. His good professional performance rewarded him with the leadership of British Taxation, from where he headed the Crown Prosecution Service.
Sir Keir is neither a charismatic leader nor a brilliant orator. Never mind that they are noticed by the masses and on their television appearances they are noticed in the excess of gloss on the front produced by the nervous sweat of the man in charge.
He is a serious politician who believes that governing consists of careful study of data and purposes, long commitment to work and making difficult decisions.
“Starmer is an ideologically fearless social democratic leader. Unfortunately, he lives in a time that severely punishes his best virtues.”
In 2026, everything is a big problem for a politician. Starmer is an ideologically fearless social democratic statesman: a participant in a strong, fiscally responsible state, committed to social cohesion and institutional stability.
For your misfortune, He rules in an age that severely punishes his greatest virtues.
The Labor party he inherited had been devastated by the severe trauma of Corbynism and the fractiousness of Brexit.
He tried to rebuild the current shaky, impossible electoral coalition that brought power in the past day Tony Blair.
First, the old one Red wall post-industrial, even more oxidized by the identitarian demagoguery of the Reformation and its nativist wares.
Furthermore, the urban media classes of major university towns are culturally progressive, but with declining influence on the electoral map and on the country’s ideological coordination.
The constant practice of walking the tightrope between the two impulses forced her to adjust her pro-European convictions so as not to re-upset the technical and generational stress that drove her to the referendum a decade ago.
Given such careful and admirable balancing and his many efforts to stabilize the country that the last Conservative governments left behind one of the bulls, to Starmer no dejan de lloverle los mandobles.
From the post-Corbynist ultra-left revanchist of her own party, she predictably accuses her of being the reincarnation of the devil, who in her imagination is not even Tony Blair’s child.
At the same time, from the ethical and Trumpist side of Reform, he presents himself as a dangerous communist.
This is the inevitable fate of the rationalist politician in such times: to become the punching bag of this or that, accused of one thing and the oppositedenostado por todos, ahogadas sus reason en exabruptos.
“In many times it is the inevitable fate of the rationalist politician: to become a punching bag for one and the other.”
The calm in the markets, which brought the country to the brink of disaster, did not help much default they remain for a short time as the leader of the dementias Liz Truss.
In any case, it is worth noting that the management of a totally broken health system, which accumulates endless lists of hopes and inappropriate data about the survival of a plundered country, has improved.
Concerns also reward those who have taken politically bold measures, such as the progressive renationalisation of many maltrechos railcars, amid bankruptcies in which liberalization has degenerated into a cartel of prohibitive prices, fragmented services and Third Worldist performance.
In politics outside he demonstrated his abilities as whisperer de Trump, once again she slowed down a discreet but frank confrontation with the European Union during the years of rotary bridges for the boris tradition.
Any of these will do. Starmer is simply a competent politician: the lowest on the food chain of the current political ecosystem.
No shouting, no insults, no theatrics, no promising easy solutions to complex problems. Its guidelines abound in data and technical details, while canceling out the internal debates that dominate the reds.
In the context of chaos, stress and resentment, he dissolves into a black man after sobering up, who pathetically returns to weakness.
If not, it would be a certainty that one’s own party would be decarbalgarlo long before it gets to the table at the next election, it would be the perfect sacrifice for the charlatan to crush. Nigel Farage.
And Starmer holds the worst of her sisters. Open the cabinet to find it Peter Mandelson entered Epstein’s papers. He lives tormented by the ghosts of the past and strange culture wars.
It is very likely that the term is scatteredeven without much delay, for some relatively small reason, than those who are thrown at other leaders with a gray beak. Starmer is not a cynic, nor is he a disgrace to those who face his scandals with new ones.
Starmer carece de Resistance Manual. He’s just a good guy who wanted to serve his country. Mr. Darcy, who arrived three years later.
*** Carlos Conde Solares is Professor of Spanish History at the University of Northumbria and a member of the National Board of Spanish Studies.
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