QUENTIN LETTS: Sir Keir said 'change' 18 times...
if we're amazed he may be about to become Prime Minister so, perhaps, is the dull pudding himself By Quentin Letts for the Daily Mail Published: 00:31, 4 July 2024 | Updated: 00:33, 4 July 2024 e-mail View comments To a hot little room at a Redditch community centre last night for Sir Keir Starmer ’s final rally of the campaign. About 70 enthusiastic, whooping, pink-faced activists heard the same old stump speech from a Starmer who seemed visibly more confident. His trouser belt was a little looser after 42 days of campaigning, too.
One old gent on sticks had stuck a ‘Change’ sticker on his forehead. A bossy official pushed us journalists around. Ed Miliband’s ex-spin doctor, the millionaire Tom Baldwin, who wrote Sir Keir’s admiring biography, loomed in the margins, clenching his jaw.
A happier sight was former home secretary Jacqui Smith , Labour MP for Redditch until it went Tory in 2010. Sir Keir said ‘change’ 18 times in eight minutes and blinked at the activists’ cheers. If the rest of Britain is amazed that he may be about to become PM, so, perhaps, is the dull pudding himself.
Sir Keir Starmer laughing next to parliamentary candidate for Carmarthenshire Martha O'Neil on the final day of campaigning at the West Regwm Farm in Whitland yesterday The Labour leader pictured stepping off the stage at the Caledonian Gladiators Stadium in East Kilbride on July 3 He spent much of the day in an aeroplane. On clou.
