The removal of portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh from 10 Downing Street, where Prime Minister Starmer now lives, is an outrageous cashiering of two of England’s glories that bodes poorly for the Sceptered Isle’s present. A Starmer spokesman protests that “the change of artwork is long planned, since before the election.” Maybe, though we imagine the man who holds the office of Churchill could have weighed in on the decor.