Starmer is terrified of Reform. So he’s taken the really smart stance of pulling Labour to the right to court a demographic that would never vote Labour anyway, and in the meantime utterly piss off his core base.

Exactly. The guy’s a very talented shyster, almost to the level of a savant. He’s stupid in a lot of ways. His social intelligence is practically zero, for example. But to utterly discount him is dangerous.