Sir Keir Starmer meets the public. Sort of
The Labour leader is better than he was at campaigning but that is not saying a lot
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It IS two days after the general election was called and Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, is on the campaign trail. Sir Keir likes to meet people, in a natural way, “where they are”. In Ipswich he once went “to the bingo” to find people “where they are”; in Blackpool he went “on the beach, on the pier” to find them; today he is visiting a builders’ merchant in Lancashire. Psephologists believe that there are also people in Waitrose in Islington but Sir Keir seems less bothered about meeting those people.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Lights, camera…inaction!”
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