Trump could teach Starmer a thing or two about speeches

The standout line from Sir Keir Starmer’s first speech to conference as prime minister – the one that will be quoted far and wide – will not have been what he planned. With his most serious, most pained expression, Sir Keir called for ‘an immediate ceasefire in Gaza’ and… ‘the return of the sausages’. He corrected himself immediately, of course – he meant to say hostages – but at that point he was (forgive me) cooked.  

While the faces of his front bench colleagues were effortfully composed in the hopes of pretending that their leader hadn’t just said what he just said, you know that their minds were feverishly imagining what the photoshop guys and pun technicians were going to do with that for tomorrow morning’s red-tops. Anyone can make a slip of the tongue. But this one hit particularly hard because its absurdity contrasted so strongly with the earnestness with which it was delivered.