Keir Starmer’s dismal decision to block the Greater Manchester mayor has bought him time, but it won’t change his fate Keir Starmer’s dismal decision to block the Greater Manchester mayor has bought him time, but it won’t change his fate L abour’s impulse for political self-harm defies belief. It is as if some enemy within guides it unerringly along the wrong strategic path. Declaring war on Andy Burnham anoints him as a northern martyr and hero, and casts Keir Starmer as a coward. Many opposed