Party insiders discuss what each leader needs to do under the bright lights of the studio on News’s Electoral Dysfunction podcast.
Baroness Hazarika, who also counseled former Labour leader Ed Miliband during his 2015 election campaign against David Cameron, stated, “He’s got to try and really land a blow on Starmer.”
“And given that he hasn’t really done that at PMQs, that is quite a high bar for him.”
Furthermore, the prime minister needs to make an appeal to “those old Tory voters who are flirting with [the Reform party]” and tell them to return.
He just needs to concentrate on that, the Labour peer argued, since the PM is “not trying to win this election at this point” but rather reducing the loss of seats from 200 to anything closer to 100 or 150.
Conversely, Keir Starmer, according to her, has “just one job.”
“He has got to come out, and he’s got to look like a prime minister.”
Be it “tripping over the stage or anything like that” or simply “appearing like someone I could actually see at Downing Street.” He works only at that.
