Lynn Barber

Will Keir Starmer ever learn to loosen up?

The Labour leader comes across as compassionate and hard-working, but so ill at ease in front of the cameras that even his close friends fail to recognise him

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  • Keir Starmer: The Biography

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    William Collins, pp. 336, £25

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