Keir Starmer’s voice coach, Leonie Mellinger, is an unsurprising choice for a Labour leader who’s spent years perfecting the art of sanctimonious lecturing. Mellinger, a committed Boris-basher and anti-Tory activist, has been relentless in her online attacks on any Conservatives, gleefully retweeting headlines like “Boris’s buffoonery and banter no laughing matter at PMQs” and “Desperate Boris Johnson to step up personal attacks on Keir Starmer.” She’s also reposted Starmer’s Guardian piece slamming Boris for supposedly “losing control” of Covid, calling for stricter measures than the ones at the time…
Mellinger—who miraculously managed to visit Starmer on Christmas Eve 2020, despite London being under Tier 4 lockdown and claiming all her work was online —was more than happy to amplify Labour’s partygate outrage. She reposted many Labour party and Starmer tweets calling for Johnson and Sunak to resign. She also reposted Starmer’s nothing to see here Beergate defence that “no rules were broken while I was in Durham.” Meanwhile, eyebrows have been raised over initial reports their “relationship began” in April 2020. Though as Guido revealed last night, Mellinger’s husband Anothy Burton co-founded a death penalty charity with Starmer much earlier than that – way back in 2005. Starmer was also paid £18,000 for legal advice he provided to Burton’s solicitors firm from 2016 to 2019. Was Mellinger more of a Labour fellow traveller than a voice coach?
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”
