Well, well, well. It seems Sir Keir Starmer wasn’t exaggerating about his ‘change’ agenda. It now transpires that the new Prime Minister has taken it upon himself to redecorate parts of No. 10 – and has reportedly gone so far as to remove a portrait of Margaret Thatcher from Downing Street. Talk about a Labour takeover…
The rather curious report comes after Sir Keir’s biographer Tom Baldwin was interviewed in Scotland, at Glasgow’s Aye Write summer book festival. The Gordon Brown-commissioned picture, funded by an anonymous donation that covered its £100,000 price tag, is the first painting of an ex-PM ever to be requested by No. 10 – yet despite its links to the last Labour prime minister, it seems Starmer wasn’t overly impressed. As set out by the Herald, Baldwin described how he was recently taken to the former Downing Street study – or the ‘Thatcher room’ – before admitting the PM agreed with him that the Iron Lady’s portrait was ‘a bit unsettling’.
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