Corbyn gained a hung election, but the tories cheated by forming a coalition with the DUP.

It's very understandable - we all do it, don't we ? - for Starmer to try to cast his past in the best possible light.

What I find more worrying though is that there is something of a political project going on around this - a consistent repetition from the Labour right of the false perspective that Starmer 'saved' Labour, when in fact he almost destroyed it - and a complicity from the media, that just as consistently fails to challenge this propaganda.

This is how political mythologies become 'common sense', and mistaken for reality - and there is no myth more potent in the UK than the notion that the left is unelectable.

I expect Burnham to have better advisers.... he seems to have a better political awareness .... so at least the optics might improve if the overall conduct doesn't