Irish Examiner View: Irish and British Labour parties elect two men with a vital mission

The Irish and British Labour parties elected leaders in recent days. One seems condemned to opposition for the immediate future. The other must consider if his party’s interests and the national good can be aligned in a coalition government.

Keir Starmer, a millionaire solicitor from London, will need all his talents to rejuvenate a party that denied reality before the election and paid a huge price. Like US Democrats he carries the tremendous responsibility to confront dangerous zealots, often dangerously ill-informed zealots.