As we look back on a year of the Labour government, marked by what seems like an almost typical lack of professionalism by British administrations I’ve been considering the PM.

Keir Starmer seems to treat conviction like a suspicious package—best handled with gloves and disposed of quietly— he’s become the Aaron Burr of British politics. In a world crying out for clarity, he offers caveats. Like Burr, he’s made a lack of clarity, or indeed a downright obfuscation of his governing principles an art-form There’s a line from Hamilton which rings true “If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?”. That sums up my view of Starmer, in fact it might as well be etched into the despatch box. His principles, if they exist, are Schrödinger’s: simultaneously present and absent, depending on the polling data. And while Burr at least had the decency finally act on principle with a gun, Starmer’s tool of choice is a spreadsheet of focus group results and a weak hand on the tiller, not ideal as we head into choppy waters.