The Cautious Messiah

A man from the people but not of the people

A brief note.

Keir was the last person I saw before I ended my last job. Known him on and off (very tangentially) since university politics.

In office, he made a foolish ambassadorial appointment was and a bad mistake on winter fuels.

He didn’t manage the Parliamentary Labour Party, least of all its huge, unruly new intake.

But abroad, he repaired Britain’…