Letters: Yvette Cooper for PM!
Bet on Yvette Sir: Were Angela Rayner, Ed Miliband, Andy Burnham or Wes Streeting to succeed Sir Keir (‘After Starmer’, 2 May) as prime minister without first becoming a holder of one of the other three Great Offices of State, this would mark the first time in more than a century that a current or previous holder has not become prime minister in the middle of a parliament when the occasion arose. On the basis of this very strong tradition, the real contenders are David Lammy, Shabana Mahmood, Yvette Cooper and Rachel Reeves. Of these, the only credible potential candidate appears to be Cooper, who could run as a ‘safe
