QUENTIN LETTS: A Colin Firth revamp for the nasal knight waging class warfare By Quentin Letts for the Daily Mail Published: 00:00, 28 May 2024 | Updated: 00:04, 28 May 2024 e-mail View comments Sir Keir Snorer chose the village of Lancing for the first ‘big speech’ of the campaign. A provocative location. Lancing is famous for its private school, run by the Woodard charity.
First thing you see of Lancing, miles across the West Sussex flats, is its chapel standing proud on the horizon like a grounded galleon. Under Labour ’s plans, Lancing college would be whacked by tax. The school that gave us Evelyn Waugh and Sir Tim Rice, not to mention Left-wing illuminati such as Tom Driberg, Trevor Huddleston and Sir David Hare, is thus staring at the muzzle of Sir Keir’s class warfare.
Not that the nasal knight gave a stuff. His mood was one of dull nonchalance. It was all about him.
Twenty points ahead in opinion polls, little else mattered. As he absorbed the applause of Labour activists at Lancing Parish Hall on a Bank Holiday morning, he beamed through his new designer glasses and proceeded to speak about himself for half an hour. Sir Keir Snorer chose Lancing for his first 'big speech' of the election while in a mood of dull nonchalance, writes QUENTIN LETTS Pure narcissistic glue, and less genial than it looked.
He offered an account of his childhood in Surrey. Cue the Hovis advert music. Sir Keir’s depiction of early 1970s Oxted (a feeder town for Croydon, though that.
