The liaison super-committee has an unavoidable tri-annual encounter with the prime minister
An afternoon with Keir Starmer isn’t necessarily many people’s idea of fun. A period of time when every minute feels like five.
Sadly, for the select committee chairs who make up the liaison super-committee, they didn’t have the option of saying no. This was one of their unavoidable tri-annual encounters with the prime minister. Still, at least they all had the Xmas recess to look forward to at the end of the week. They would need a long lie down.
To be fair, Keir also gives the impression he would rather not spend the afternoon with himself. He’s a man who has no trouble putting himself to sleep with his tortured use of English. Mind you, he isn’t the first prime minister to have worked out that boring the committee to death is the best strategy. And it helps that he’s a natural.
The goal for such occasions is damage limitation. To end the session having committed no news whatsoever. Leaving everyone wondering why they had bothered. Democracy at its most pointlessly performative.
