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For the first time I'm really beginning to understand how Labour left-wingers feel about They've been complaining for years that he made a series of promises during the Labour leadership contest in 2020, when he presented himself as someone who follow in the footsteps of ex-leader Jeremy Corbyn, for example by supporting "common ownership" of water and power firms.

Then, once Sir Keir became leader, he did a huge u-turn and abandoned all of Mr Corbyn's policies. For people like left-wing journalist Owen Jones, this was a huge betrayal. Those of us who thought Jeremy Corbyn had led his party to disaster, and would do the same to the country if give half a chance, were less upset. But in recent weeks it's become clear that Sir Keir has no firm principles.

He doesn't seem to believe anything, or perhaps he just believes whatever's convenient at the time. When the wind changes, his beliefs will too.

First he backtracked on women's rights and trans issues - but acted like nothing had happened.

He used to claim that "trans women are women" and publicly told off a Labour MP who said that "only women have a cervix" - which is another way of saying that someone with a female body who claims to be a man isn't a real man.

Sir Keir also claimed that "for 99.9%" of women have female bodies, suggesting one in a thousand women had male bodies.

That's all changed. Ever since the supreme court ruling, and cheerfully insists that only biological women are really women. There's no hint of an apology to all the people, including Labour MPs, that received abuse in the past for saying the same thing.

And now we have the Prime Minister championing controls on immigration. In the past, he and insisted: "The benefits of immigration are obvious and should be celebrated."

Now, he's promising to cut the numbers and says: "We risk becoming an island of strangers."

This language goes much further than anything the Tories have ever said. In fact, as some Labour MPs point out, it's similar to comments made by Enoch Powell in his controversial "rivers of blood" speech, when Powell said the existing population "found themselves made strangers in their own country" (Powell was a Conservative MP but was sacked from the Government by Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath because of the speech).

Can Sir Keir possibly believe what he's saying? Or at least, can he possibly believe what he says now and also believe what he said a couple of years ago? No he can't - it's not possible.

The question, then, is whether he actually believes anything at all.