Corbyn’s “kinder, gentler” leftism had been sold to the Labour membership as a kind of ablution or purification to cleanse the taint of Blairism when really, to McSweeney, it had corrupted the party’s soul. The Starmer of 2020 was the vaccine: to all intents and purposes an inert strain of the same pathogen injected into Labour’s bloodstream. Then, in 2021, he became the counter-revolutionary, parroting other people’s justifications for purges and political transformation in the name of repentance. Now, with McSweeney gone, he is promising to be something else entirely. • To end ‘boys’ club’, Keir Starmer must do more...