Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer

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He is like the not-so-bright person in a meeting, with nothing to contribute, but goes along with whatever anyone else has to say. The overwhelming majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party were determined to prevent that happening, even John McDonnell and Diane Abbot wanted to placate the majority and his immediate entourage was never capable of the task. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up isn’t due out until August, but a draft has been submitted to the publisher and it has a cover image. Perhaps more importantly, it seems to switch focus from Starmer to Corbyn for too long in a book about Starmer - it's more of an obsession with vanquishing Corbyn's replacement.

Because Rodney Starmer, the Labour leader’s father, was not employed as a toolmaker, but self-employed; and because the parents bought a house and once posed for a photograph with the Duke of Kent, “perhaps it would be most accurate to say that [his background] was neither ‘working class’ … nor ‘posh’ but … petit bourgeois”. It's not just that Starmer isn't of the left, but that he takes every opportunity to serve the needs of the establishment, and barely even qualifies as a liberal.One way in which Starmer dissembles is that he attempts to take credit for things that were ultimately forced upon him and turned out to be right such as the phone hacking cases.

The Bodley Head has snapped up a new book by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, which tells the inside story of Labour under Keir Starmer. His focus-group led policy show him as being an empty vessel, incapable of leadership and and with not an ethical bone in his body.In response to a global pandemic and the most criminal government in the history of the UK was to support them in many of their policies and abstain in areas where no Labour MP should ever abstain. Alfie Meadows was assaulted by a police officer to the extent that he had to undergo emergency brain surgery – Starmer prosecuted him three times. There are plenty of photographs, a slight quibble is one is mislabelled-it should be shadow Brexit Secretary in Corbyn's shadow cabinet, as thank the Lord Corbyn didn't get into Number 10. It certainly shows why he saw no hesitation in stating that the response to the murder of Sarah Everard at the hands of a serving Met Police officer should be “more police on the streets”. Ashcroft uncovers more revelations than in his previous effort, notably regarding Starmer's childhood, early career and, chiefly, his years as a barrister.