We are slowly edging towards the General Election. For most people, the campaigning has been stultifyingly boring – a reflection of the fact that a Labour victory on July 4 is now considered a dead cert – and not even the release in recent days of the manifestos by the main parties has changed the nation’s mood music.
‘Bring on Sir Keir Starmer’ seems to be the consensus view, for better or worse. Although Labour has yet to come clean