If you win by saying almost nothing, what happens when you take power? Welcome to the Starmer paradox

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If you win by saying almost nothing, what happens when you take power? Welcome to the Starmer paradox

Last week’s Labour byelection successes were huge. But the state of one place they won shows caution will not be enoughOn the assumption that the Conservative party soon suffers a rout and Labour at last takes power, one place will be seen as the battleground where the Tory malaise finally became terminal: Wellingborough.Last Thursday also saw a byelection in the Bristol suburb of Kingswood, where the Tories’ vote share came down by about 20 per…