A recent panel of media mavens and political pundits discussed British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on the BBC-TV show, Newsnight.  Although his Labour Party won a super majority two years ago, he has stumbled, fumbled and mumbled his way from one chaos to the next.

The panel’s consensus was that he was a stellar, public prosecutor, but that brilliance did not transfer in any way, shape or form to the political arena. They added that France’s Emmanuel Macron was similarly blighted, a top banker with an outstanding reputation, but was just the opposite as a beleaguered French president.

The expert panel deduced that career politicians like Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and Franklin D. Roosevelt had a necessary ruthless streak to become successful leaders, something definitely lacking in Starmer and Macron.