Inexperienced Labour frontbenchers are being given lessons in how to run the country by a “council of elders” who served in the governments of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan. Their advice: control your diary, pick your team and do yoga in the office.
Sir Keir Starmer is concerned that his frontbench team needs more training so they can be “focused on delivery from day one”. Starmer personally has been getting tips from Brown and Blair. “What I do want to do is take advice from people who know what they’re talking about,” he told Times Radio last week.
That approach is being expanded for all members of the shadow cabinet, few of whom were even MPs when Labour was last in
