Keir Starmer interview: ‘Winning elections is all I’m here for, that’s why I came into it’

Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary is a staunch remainer who has found himself having to argue for the triggering of article 50. The man often talked about as a future party leader explains how he intends to square that circleIt is often said that even the least prepossessing backbenchers arrive in Westminster thinking they could one day be prime minister. I have met a lot of MPs, and unless the human capacity for self-delusion is greater than I’d grasped, I find this hard to believe.