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Keir Starmer is a goner. No amount of resurrecting political relics can save him. His unearthing of Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman at the weekend was embarrassing. It was the final act of a desperate leader on his way out. Brown of course is the man who sold off our gold at such a low price that it has cost us around £40billion in lost value, yet Keir made him his global finance envoy. And Harriet Harman believes biological men can be women and opposed a national rape gang inquiry – and yet he’s made her his new advisor on women and girls. So much for women and girls.

Seriously, if Starmer thinks those two appointments will win back the swathe of voters Labour lost in the Red Wall in the north, he’s even more out of touch than I thought. After his disastrous Mandelson appointment, you’d think the last thing Starmer would want to do is bring back more discredited ghosts from Labour’s past. These appointments won’t save him – they are nails in his coffin.

Even the most loyal and toadying MPs know he’s done for and are queuing up to call on him to go. And the thrashing Labour took last week at the local elections was the electorate telling him to go. It is so obvious to everyone but Starmer that he’s finished.

Yet he distastefully clings on to power, hangs on to the trappings of high office, and doesn’t care who he takes down with him in order that he can stay there.

What I don’t understand is why ministers are prepared to suffer persistent humiliation to keep Starmer in place. Take Rachel from Accounts. The appointment of Gordon Brown as Starmer’s economic envoy is a snub to Rachel Reeves without even being disguised.

If she had anything about her she would attempt to rescue what is left of her reputation and resign as Chancellor.

She could say that she has tried to run the nation’s finances responsibly, but with a ditherer and U-turner like Starmer at the helm it’s impossible.

That she has seen it through to the local elections to avoid causing a row for the benefit of Labour council candidates, but she can now speak freely and highlight how Starmer makes the job of Chancellor impossible.

Reeves is the person who could finish Starmer off. If she had anything about her, she would do it and that act might just improve her standing in the country too.

Unfortunately, she too is weak and out of her depth and I suspect she hasn’t got it in her, but it truly is the only sensible course of action she has left at her disposal.

Whilst the Labour Party soap opera trundles on for another week, the country keeps going into reverse. Starmer’s legacy as the worst ever Prime Minister is assured. He needs to be put out of his misery quickly, and so do the rest of us for that matter.