Andy Burnham is at home(如鱼得水；自在) at Labour conference, and not only because it is in Liverpool and he has Merseyside roots. The prime minister is native to his political tribe(部落；群体) wherever it gathers. He is fluent in its sentimental vocabulary and indigenous(土生土长的；原生的) to its folk traditions.
安迪·伯纳姆在工党大会上如鱼得水，这不仅因为大会在利物浦举行、而他本人根在默西塞德。这位首相无论他的政治部落聚集何处，都像是土生土长的自己人。他对这个部落的情感语汇运用自如，对其民间传统也浑然天成。
Keir Starmer had solid Labour bona fides(诚意；资历证明). He joined the party as a teenager. His parents named him after Keir Hardie(英国工党首任领袖). But he didn’t have Burnham’s knack(诀窍；本领) for turning those red-team credentials(红色阵营的资历) into an emotional connection.
基尔·斯塔默的工党资历无可置疑。他十几岁就入党，父母还以凯尔·哈迪的名字为他命名。但他缺少伯纳姆那种本领——把红色阵营的资历转化为情感纽带。
Starmer liked to remind Labour that it had been unelectable(无法当选的) when he took over and that the changes he enforced brought victory for the first time in a generation. It was true. But there’s a limit to the gratitude available to a leader who tells party members that their ideological instincts are the enemy of success(成功之敌). Tony Blair managed it for a decade because he kept winning. Starmer blew his credit almost immediately because he turned out not to have any instincts at all, or none that could set a coherent direction in government.(斯塔默几乎立刻耗尽了信用，因为他根本没有本能可言，或者说，没有任何能指引政府形成连贯方向的本能。)
斯塔默喜欢提醒工党：他接手时工党毫无胜选可能，而他推行的改革让工党一代人以来首次赢得大选。这话不假。但一位告诉党员“你们的意识形态本能是成功之敌”的领袖，能得到的感激是有限的。托尼·布莱尔靠不断获胜，把这种局面维持了十年。斯塔默却几乎立刻耗尽了信用，因为他根本没有本能可言，或者说，没有任何能指引政府形成连贯方向的本能。