1. If Keir Starmer becomes the next leader of the Labour party then he would certainly be a lot better than Corbynite fellow-travellers like RLB and Clive Lewis but if you were to pick a leader specifically with the seats you lost in the last GE in mind he is (arguably) not ideal

2. Not because he is a posh, m/class, Southern, lawyer type. Boris Johnson is an Eton-educated posho classics scholar who has just won Burnley&Bassetlaw (here comes the but) but BoJo staked his career on something that the ppl of Burnley&Bassetlaw clearly wanted, namely Brexit.