Bootlicking: a guide to pre-election British politics

The Press on their knees, licking a Starmer boot with a Labour rosette sock.

2024-04-10    

No wonder Sir Keir Starmer looked apprehensive before a recent grilling with Lorraine Kelly, a daytime-TV host. He should not have been. Ms Kelly gushed about the Labour leader’s working-class roots for ten minutes. Rather than a list of predators, Ms Kelly produced only a mug with a young Sir Keir’s face on it as a reminder that he was—according to internet lore, if not the actual author—the inspiration for Mark Darcy, the awkward but handsome lawyer from “Bridget Jones’s Diary”.

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