That Starmer fella...

Maybe it's because I'm not a housewife in Basingstoke or a Workington Man, and maybe he doesn't seem like a vacuous flannel to them.

It might well be this. My mother ( who, for context, currently thinks that Johnson is making a "good effort of a difficult job") likes Starmer. She's a Blair era swing voter who you couldn't have paid to vote for Corbyn, she will vote for Starmer.