Can Starmer buck the trend and keep his family out of the spotlight?

Betting is out of fashion in politics at the moment, so best not to put money on it, but here is a racing certainty for the week ahead. Whoever becomes Prime Minister, you will not see a picture of their other half blearily opening the door in her nightie to a flower delivery guy. Cue Chic Murray joke about a funny place to have a door.

Remember that doorstep photograph of Cherie Blair the morning after the night Labour won in 1997? She does. Speaking about it almost a decade later, she was finally able to laugh about it. Mrs Blair had gone to bed at 6.

30am only to be woken at 8am by voices at the front door of the family home in Islington. So she opened it. “It was such a terrible mistake,” she told The Guardian.

“There was a great flash of bulbs.” Cherie Blair the morning after the night Labour won in 1997 (Image: free) The moment was said to have inspired the paparazzi scene in the movie Notting Hill two years later (though no-one, mercifully, followed Rhys Ifans’ example and came out to pose in his pants for the world’s media). Cherie Blair’s dismay went beyond the photo.

“I was very upset when the press said I was wearing some sort of nylon thing. It was a high-quality, cotton nightie from Next.” So no photos of Mrs Sunak, or as is far more likely Mrs Starmer, wearing a nightie, Next or otherwise.

Here is something else you should not expect to see - a picture of the Starmers recreating that shot of the Blairs and their young family on the doorstep of N.