OPINION - We are about to wake from eight years of sugar-rush politics with a jolt

How will journalists live with no-drama Starmer? Since 2016, five long prime ministers ago, we have lived with it — Brexit, the day the news sped up and never stopped, Johnson, Truss, the death of Elizabeth II, the rise and fall of Sunak — and we are addicted. Now the narcissists, grifters and showmen are done (though I don’t include Sunak in that) and we face a lawyer who loves listening to people, and paperwork.