With Keir Starmer in charge, Labour can hold the Tories to account again | Polly Toynbee

Expect the incompetent handling of the coronavirus crisis to come under proper scrutiny, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The country today gains an opposition leader who will for the first time subject the government’s competence in this coronavirus crisis to relentless scrutiny. The political landscape will be recast beyond recognition. Where there was no effective opposition, a void, a limbo, now in Keir Starmer the party has a grand prosecutor well qualified to hold the government’s feet to the fire.

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