My best hope for the Starmer era is that he recognises that Labour's current manifesto is essentially correct and concentrates, instead, upon charming the media establishment and wooing all those most likely to attack, with statesmanlike words but little rowback. >

> My more realistic, but still hopeful, scenario is that Corbyn established a new horizon, from which Starmer will make a big deal of holding back, pitching himself as a 'safe' 'moderate', but still being elected PM on a platform considerably to the Left of the 2015 manifesto. >

>My most cynical prediction is that this is back to the neoliberal consensus and, by the next election, only the most fervent partisans will be able to detect any meaningful difference between the two main parties.