However, that wasn’t meant to be. I have never agreed with Keir Starmer on much. He is weak on political reform, and we have never needed it more. He was never going to end the cost of living crisis by doing a proper deal with Europe, as he could and should have done. And of course, he is Labour – so I knew the party’s instincts would be to centralise and bureaucratise everything possible. But I did think he would end the soap opera. He is a decent man; I did not see in him the same zest to attain power just for the sake of it. And like many people across the country I genuinely did want this Labour government to succeed.