Promising, indeed. I disagree with Starmer on many points, since he's centre-left whereas I'm far-left (I disagreed with slightly-lefter-centre-left Corbyn, too) and would ideologically have picked Long-Bailey. However, I do think Starmer is the right person for the position at the moment, being far more TV-friendly than Corbyn was and quite possibly more than Johnson is too. I also like his renationalisation policies and he'll back the NHS, as well as taking Labour's antisemitism problem more seriously than Corbyn did, so he got my vote.

I also think - and hope - that he can probably win an election.

(For the record, I don't believe for even one second that Corbyn has an antisemitic bone in his body. The trouble is, antisemitism is so alien to his way of thinking that I think he's simply unable to comprehend that it really exists.)

Totally agree with your comment, Petter

I think it’s a great decision that the Labour membership has made in electing him...the first sensible thing they’ve done since before the Corbyn era. It will however, be a long slog back from where they now are, to getting back into government. Starmer has got to pull all strands of the party together and put together a strategy for winning back those natural Labour voters lost to the Tories recently, but to also be able to win over other voters, even Tories, who don't like the lurch to the right that their party has taken. This current Covid 19 crisis will leave the economy in a bad way after it passes and we will then move into a period of trying to reconstruct it in some way, what this current government decides to do is anyone’s guess, but we do need Labour to formulate a credible strategy of their own in order to challenge and hold Boris and his lot to account.