Doused in glitter after a protester crashed the stage before Keir Starmer's speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool today, the Labour leader had only gratitude to express; that it was him and not his wife. ‘My wife’s dress is really beautiful,’ he explained. And so it was.
We were offered a glimpse of Lady Victoria Starmer just moments before, as she joined her husband on stage in a resplendent red dress by Canadian-British designer Edeline Lee, which would, perhaps, have been tarnished by the glitter of protest. Lady Victoria Starmer never fails to fly the red flag for Labour sartorially (having donned the shade at three consecutive conferences now) but these annual gatherings are often our only glimpse of the typically reclusive spouse of Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer. Following Akshata Murty’s surprise appearance a week earlier at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, it could well have been a ‘battle of the First Ladies’ but not so for the elusive Lady Starmer.
When asked by the if his wife would be introducing him before his speech, Keir Starmer responded: 'I don’t think I’d put her through that...
I talk to her about what we’re going to say and how we’re going to say it. And she has views on all of that. But that’s the normal to and fro in a family.
' Nevertheless, Lady Starmer was by her husband's side this week, pictured looking equally casual in an appropriately red jumper and skinny jeans as the couple looked wistfully ou.
