H
e can walk his path, he can wear his shoes. But just don’t pretend Keir Starmer is Tony Blair. That’s not me saying it. That’s Starmer himself, who went to Blair’s Centristdadfest conference to be anointed by the only person to win a Labour majority in half a century.
Between Jamie Oliver declaring war on pies, Macron’s voice note and Jon Sopel doing selfies with every deputy head of comms in attendance, this was the big moment for Starmer to recapture the Cool Britannia mood. Or, it turned out, kill it.
“We’ve only won from opposition three times and obviously ’97 was the last time,” Starmer pointlessly told Blair as if he didn’t already have this tattooed across his chest. “The mood then was
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