The opposition leader’s measured, mature critiques are inadequate when crisis has opened up urgent new possibilities, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
, at the job-interview hour of 9am on a Monday, which started this week. Some of it, he handled very deftly. He neatly swivelled a question about the teaching unions and whether or not they had behaved the right way over schools reopening towards a criticism of the prime minister.in Bristol on Sunday. It was actually more nuanced than that, since he started by saying the statue should have been taken down years ago, as there was no place in the 21st century for the glorification of slavers.
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