Labour to win, Tories to lose: but why can’t Britain have radical MPs free to speak their minds? | Simon Jenkins

With just one change, we could have more independent voices in the Commons. We are going to need them

For the next two years, the best job in British politics will be leader of the opposition. The first two years is usually the honeymoon period for an opposition party. Keir Starmer, meanwhile – if he is indeed the next prime minister – will be wrestling with an appalling bequest: a cabinet bereft of recent cabinet experience and his vague election promises of “growth”. A deft opponent would be wi...