OPINION - Why is it all going so wrong for Keir Starmer? He has the power to stop the rot

It’s Keir’s drear new year — a January which sees the Prime Minister on the back foot from attacks from a (clearly bored) Elon Musk, stirring up trouble over the UK’s record on ethnically-based sexual crime and dragging the government into arguments about how its institutions addressed Asian grooming gangs. This is reactive territory: Starmer is not really the main culprit in a long story of many blind-eyes turned to the fate of thousands of vulnerable young women, abused in the 1990s and 2000s.