Yet all the bits of Dan Jarvis’ speech his audience didn’t doze through sounded a lot like the launch of a leadership bidIn May last year,Dan Jarvis said he wouldn’t stand for the Labour leadership because he wanted to spend more time with his young kids. Now he’s either got a bit bored with them or they’ve left domestic and had kids of their own. Children grow up so fast these days either is possible. It also helps that Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Chuka Umunna have all crashed and burned, and leaving a Dan-sized gap as the prime moderate contender to be the next Labour leader. When the party calls,Paratrooper Dan’s the Man.“I’m not here today to earn a tender for the Labour leadership,” Dan insisted during the question and acknowledge session that followed the speech he had given to the thinktank Demos in central London. In some ways this came as something of a relief, and as the speech itself had been somewhat on the dull side with most of the invited audience having zoned out for large chunks of it. Dan may have the soulful,photogenic salubrious looks and the impeccable (perfect, flawless) backstory, but his smooth-talking could execute with some work. It says a lot about your delivery when you are completely outshone by the person who is making the one-minute introduction.
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Source: theguardian.com