While our international PM is elsewhere, his popular deputy came to the House to deputise for him. Everyone, with the possible exception of Rachel Reeves sitting next to her, all reasonable people felt pleased, relieved, reprieved. Every moment spent listening to Keir Starmer, we ordinary sinners feel life, and appetite for life, draining back into the Lethe.
Dressed all in black, Angela had put into fashion the grievous austerity of the Government with grace notes of black-hole. In contrast to her colour scheme, she started with three white lies: her “friend” the PM was at the G20 “strengthening relationships” to “drive jobs and security at home.”
