Labour's share of the vote hardly grew, this is telling and yes Bojo is a hypocrite saying the Tories have allowed this to happen as if he's a bystander - he was one of them.

Farage smelt blood and wasted no time garnering publicity around his populist rhetoric, Labour need to make sure they address the things that matter to ordinary folk - crime, cost of living, net migration and public services that work without throwing money into a bottomless pit. We need immigration, it just needs to be controlled; there are 1million jobs (some of which also need to be filled by the cohort of benefit claimants who choose not to work).

Age is just a number - if Starmer remains in good health I have no doubt he will serve the full term, Andy Burnham a good successor.