One hundred days of Britain under Keir Starmer’s stewardship, and the Labour Party’s dedication to scandal is nothing if not impressive. Thus far, the front benches are replete with allegations of cronyism, bribery, and a taste for rather obvious double standards. Political nicknames usually take some time to forge, but not for ‘two-tier Keir’—whose evident dislike of the plebs was so vehemently expressed during his mishandling of the Southport riots, and via the concomitant heavy-handed sentencing.
However, no matter how hard he tries to push his ‘son of a toolmaker’, ‘working-class’ credentials, as a white man Keir Starmer is not getting much bang for his identity politics buck. The PM may well insist ‘two-tier policing worries are a non-issue’, but he is neither convincing nor correct. London Mayor Sadiq Khan on the other hand, is another matter entirely.
