Keir Starmer is not a stupid man. Nor is he a bad man. Indeed, he is a decent fellow with humane instincts. In that – sole – regard, there is a resemblance to both Winston Churchill and David Cameron. When Rab Butler was preparing the 1944 Education Act, he went to brief Churchill and drew the PM’s attention to a proposal for free school milk. “Pour it down their throats” said Churchill, while recharging Rab’s champagne glass. “I wish we could give them this as well”. At that point, Clementine Churchill intervened: “Winston, you’re far too generous with that stuff as it is,” she declared, fixing Butler with a beady-eyed glare. Churchill had the last word: “I wish every cottage home could enjoy the advantages I’ve had.”