Starmer’s biographer Tom Baldwin says that the PM has removed the picture of Margaret Thatcher from the… Margaret Thatcher room. Who’s going to go up in her place – Arthur Scargill?

Gordon Brown put the painting of Mrs Thatcher up in 2007 and it has been there ever since. Either Guido was hallucinating or he remembers Keir lavishing praise on the Iron Lady a mere ten months ago, weathering a storm of criticism from his socialist colleagues:

“Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism.“

Looks like he’s flopped on that too. Guido has added it to his rolling list of Labour U-turns…

Maybe he’s embarrassed that he is a man and his party is the only major one to never have elected a woman as its leader. 16,555 days behind the Tories and counting…