Starmer burns Burnham at lobby drinks

It’s six days until the King’s Speech but tonight it was Keir Starmer’s to give it a go. The Labour leader hosted the great and the good of the lobby tonight at a Christmas knees-up to celebrate the end of term and multiple Prime Ministers. Starmer regaled HM press corps with his musings on events. 

Of Matt Hancock’s I’m a Celebrity… appearance, Starmer reflected that it was ‘a rare sight of him eating bollocks rather than talking them.’ Kwasi Kwarteng became the ‘second shortest serving Chancellor ever’ – an achievement all the more remarkable ‘when you consider that Nadhim tried to resign on day two.’

But it was the World Cup that attracted most of the Leader of the Opposition’s attention. Of the lobby’s fantasy football league, Starmer noted that he was ‘beaten by the Prime Minister – for the first and last time’ and ‘hammered by the Sun’s lobby team, a glimpse of the next general election campaign.’