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hen internal critics question whether Sir Keir Starmer has the grit and determination needed to fight his way to Downing Street, one of his closest aides has taken to telling people about a football match. On a trip to Scotland last year Starmer and a group of Labour officials played the Scottish Labour Party.
“We were losing at half-time and he was absolutely furious,” the aide recalled. Starmer could barely look his colleagues in the eye. Beyond threatening to fire them all if they lost, “he wasn’t even talking to us”. None of them wanted to find out if he was joking. “We ran ourselves into the ground to claw it back. When we got a goal ahead we blew the whistle and ended the
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