What is a woman? It’s a question Sir Keir Starmer has sometimes struggled with in the past. So it was perhaps no surprise then that the Labour leader chose not to pontificate on the subject when he addressed the women’s lobby drinks. Instead, Starmer opted to focus on warm words for his hosts and look ahead to the forthcoming election, full of glamours like endless vox pops, ‘24/7 Conservative strategy relaunches’ and ‘coffee – so much coffee’.
But it wasn’t all politics of course. Sir Keir told the attendant hacks that he is keeping abreast of popular culture via the hit TV series The Traitors on BBC One. For those unfamiliar with the series, Starmer said: ‘It is sort of like the 1922 committee, they all sit together in a crumbling historic building. They take lumps out of each other before regular secretive votes. Assassinations are communicated by handwritten parchment letters – so that’s Jacob Rees-Mogg covered.
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