Macron cosied up to consultants and lobbyists and lost voters – Starmer’s Labour risks doing the same| Oliver Haynes

The party may find that, like Macron’s Renaissance, using consultancies quickly leads to bad decisions and low popularityKeir Starmer is likely to be the prime minister in a few short weeks. Is there another, similar leader who could give us an insight into how he might behave in office? Starmer’s early promise was similar to that of Spain’s Pedro Sánchez, the electable face of an amicable centre-to-left. But Starmer abandoned that pretence the second he became Labour le