Yeah, very much so except he only adopted it for the three weeks or so of his leadership election and dropped it instantly.

Yeah, his whole career is to be an establishment asset ghoul, destroying what was left of the Labour Party is just the latest chapter. Most of this is stuff I've picked up over the years following those issues, but there's a new book (I haven't read yet but am thinking of buying) called The Starmer Project that's supposed to be very good and appropriately critical.