 After labor's shocking local election results, Keir Starmer told MPs he would spend the summer speaking to people who weren't sure whether to vote labor not speaking to crowds of the faithful. Now this was widely reported and interpreted as a rebuke to Jeremy Corbyn who people argued could rally the troops but not. Appeal to swing voters Keir Starmer saying I'm not interested in rallying the troops I'm interested in those those swing voters because I'm interested in government. Now in response to Starmer many on the left replied that even if the key wanted to give rallies to the faithful he'd struggle to assemble any crowds. On that front this weekend Starmer provided us with a test case with some evidence that's because Keir Starmer spoke to the progressive Britain conference we can get up the tweet and the advert here. Now progressive Britain is a tie up a merging of progress which is the Blair right faction in labor and policy network which is a small. Centrist think tank run by Peter Mandelson so this is very much a rally to the faithful Peter Mandelson essentially advises Keir Starmer even if in an informal capacity the Blair right faction back Keir Starmer in that leadership election so this is this is not a rally to people who Keir Starmer disagrees with. However, Starmer did keep his word when he says he wouldn't speak to crowds at the faithful because there were no crowds watching this we can take a look at a screenshot of the zoom call with Keir Starmer the headline act 55 people were watching this so you can see them in the top left hand corner and see 55 people were viewing this is the guy who's supposed to be the next Prime Minister leader of the Labour Party 55 people watched it or at this point when this screenshot was taken at least. Presumably some of those viewers were also journalists that's because it was written up in the Guardian Keir Starmer vows all new Labour manifesto and economic offer. Party leader says new blueprint for power will not draw on those of either Jeremy Corbyn or Tony Blair. This is a reference to what Keir Starmer was talking about which was Labour's new policy review. The policy review was launched after the local elections it's supposed to feed in to Labour's next manifesto it's kind of a response to everyone saying you've got no policies what do you stand for so I will have a policy review you know it will help us look outwards to the country. The Guardian explain and what he said about this so the review led by the new party chair Annalise Dodds would not take the 2019 manifesto as its launch pad Starmer said you don't go through a review like this by picking up the last document. Now at this point you might say so what you know why should a party leader use a previous manifesto or previous manifestos as a starting point for new ones you know isn't it isn't it better to start from scratch and to say we don't have to be tied to previous positions we took let's just look at what the best positions are and put them in a manifesto. Now that would be a coherent argument you know I personally would draw from the 2017 manifesto at least because I think it has been tested. You know in an election and it was popular and people liked it and it was quite coherent and I think it was much more successful than the one that came before it so I would start from the 2017 one but you can make a coherent argument that you should start afresh. The problem is that Keir Starmer is in no position to make that coherent argument because when he was trying to get votes from Labour members Starmer himself said he would take previous manifestos as the starting point for the next one let's take a look. Jeremy Corbyn made our party the party of anti-austerity and he was right to do so the party that would fight cuts to public services. He made us the party that wanted to invest more heavily in our public services and he was right to do so and we must retain that. We build on that we don't trash it as we go forward. We should treat if you like the 2017 manifesto as our foundational document the radicalism and the hope that that inspired across the country was real anybody who knocked on a door in that elections knows it was real. So we have to hang on to that. So this is a guy Aaron who is just chronically dishonest isn't he? He's got major problems Michael. People say is Keir Starmer a Corbyn supporter is he a Blair I mean he's none of the above you know I really wish it was that simple to categorize what he believes in Keir Starmer believes in Keir Starmer being the leader of the Labour Party. And at the beginning of 2020 that meant saying some things which appealed to those who previously supported Jeremy Corbyn. What we can see from the weekend and briefings over the last few weeks is that he's very happy to adopt a policy program actually to the right of Tony Blair. I'm not even joking Tony Blair had Gordon Brown. Gordon Brown certainly didn't want for instance reductions in corporation tax in the long term he thought certain taxes could go up so funding the NHS in the early 2000s huge influx of cash into the NHS under new Labour Indisputable. Where did that come from it came from increases in things like national insurance contributions increasing duties on things like alcohol cigarettes fuel etc etc. You can say they're progressive or regressive taxes. That's by the by they were funding public services which improved to an extraordinary extent. I don't even think Keir Starmer would go that far. I think Keir Starmer as we're seeing right now action the whole corporation tax debate. Clearly the Labour right is to the right of the Tories on economic policy and clearly Keir Starmer is tying himself to those same people because first he thought it was enough to get him elected as Prime Minister as it becomes increasingly obvious he hasn't got a clue. He needs to tie himself to them merely to retain power and political leadership of the Labour Party. So it is deeply concerning because it's a man who believes in nothing has no integrity has no values and has no charisma. In short we're looking at the political equivalent of a black hole. Nothing is coming out. It drags any light into it so to call him a Blair right or anything else. I don't think he's accurate. There's so many who believes in nothing except the pursuit of power. The only problem for him is he's not very good at it. Just look at his polling.