Keir Starmer’s handling of the Tulip Siddiq affair forms part of a worrying pattern

Tulip Siddiq’s resignation as a junior Treasury minister ought to be a political bump in the road for Keir Starmer , not a pothole crash.

Siddiq is a moderately interesting politician, but not a major one.

She is therefore expendable and her departure is mostly a matter of indifference to the British public.

Few ministers ever cut through widely, even fewer resignations stand out.

Today ’s announcement that the inflation rate had fallen from 2.6% to 2.5% was a classic piece of narcissism of small differences.

It was widely depicted as a significant, if unexpected, piece of good news.

But it also shows how ill-equipped so many modern politicians are to change it.