It’s six days until the King’s Speech but tonight it was Keir Starmer’s to give it a go. The Labour leader hosted the great and the good of the lobby tonight at a Christmas knees-up to celebrate the end of term and multiple Prime Ministers. Starmer regaled HM press corps with his musings on events.
Of Matt Hancock’s I’m a Celebrity… appearance, Starmer reflected that it was ‘a rare sight of him eating bollocks rather than talking them.’ Kwasi Kwarteng became the ‘second shortest serving Chancellor ever’ – an achievement all the more remarkable ‘when you consider that Nadhim tried to resign on day two.’
But it was the World Cup that attracted most of the Leader of the Opposition’s attention. Of the lobby’s fantasy football league, Starmer noted that he was ‘beaten by the Prime Minister – for the first and last time’ and ‘hammered by the Sun’s lobby team, a glimpse of the next general election campaign.’ But ‘worse than all that’ said Starmer was the humiliation of finishing ‘below Andy Burnham.’ He said:
A brilliant result for him, he also got to see his boyhood team Argentina win the Word Cup. It was a mixed bag because he also got to see his boyhood team France lose the final and his boyhood teams Morocco and Croatia lose in the semis. But Andy sadly can’t be with us tonight because he doesn’t know where Westminster is. And now to the winners…
So much for the ‘king of the north,’ eh Andy?
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