If Keir Starmer wants to change Britain, he'll need more than caution | Andy Beckett

Faced with Brexit and the pandemic, voters will be looking for fresh ideas and ambitious thinking

Since the stiff early weeks of his Labour leadership, Keir Starmer has loosened up a bit as a public figure. He talks in a more colloquial, less lawyerly way on his monthly LBC radio phone-in, Call Keir. He laughs more, sometimes at himself. Last month he appeared on Desert Island Discs, and spoke candidly about his “difficult” father and disabled mother.

Especially compared to Boris Johnson, Starmer has begun to look like a rounded human being, as well as a capable one – the sort of opposition leader that party strategists and many voters consider prime ministerial.

Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist

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