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There's probably a case for saying it doesn't need specifically to be the PM. In principle Starmer could crack on with things behind closed doors as long as there's somebody sharp, likeable and media-savvy to counter Farage every day. I guess the risk is you'd have to be a very self-confident PM, unafraid of leadership challenge, to go for that
Agreed however you very much run the risk then of the other parties claiming that this public figurehead is the real PM and getting all that dumb rhetoric around it.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking of with that final sentence