IN A recent interview with Stop the War Coalition’s Sweta Choudhury, journalist Peter Oborne observed that “the main political parties seem to be detached from the moral problems of our age.”

The problem for Labour leader Keir Starmer as he attempted another revamp at the weekend (“I’ll take my mask off and show why I should be prime minister,” he declared ahead of an article to mark his first year in the job) is not just that he exemplifies this detachment. He has defined himself against the most important movement for far-reaching change to have emerged in Britain in decades.

While Starmer was penning his Observer piece, his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn was on the streets, standing with demonstrators opposed to the government’s plans to criminalise peaceful protest.