Labour Ought to Build A Government of All the Talents

Gordon Brown, the previous Labour prime minister, stood on the steps of No. 10 Downing Street in 2007 and announced that his new administration would be a "government of all the talents," sending a message that what came next would be consensual across the political divide by picking the brightest and best to lead the country. Keir Starmer should adopt a similar nonpartisan approach.

After 14 years in opposition, it would be tempting for Starmer to simply hand out prizes to Labour’s long internal queue of expectant recipients. Yet very few of his prospective cabinet have any experience of actually running anything, either in business or government. So why not co-opt some outsiders to help navigate his agenda for change?