Watch: Labour minister squirms on ‘passes for glasses’

At long last, it’s finally here. After five days of media trails, Keir Starmer’s equivalent of the Gettysburg Address will be made later today. The scintillating socialist will be doing a press conference in the Downing Street garden, with his address expected to feature such hard-hitting lines as – gasp – he will people ‘at the heart’ of his government and – stop the presses – under Labour it will no longer ‘be business as usual’. Riveting stuff.

But before we are treated to the oratorical prowess of our Dear Leader, there comes the morning round: the much-fabled media ritual in which a hapless frontbencher is savaged by various broadcasters. Today it was the turn of Ellie Reeves against the incisive Kay Burley, keen to find out all about this brave new world of public service and transparency. With the ‘passes for glasses’ row over Waheed Alli now entering its third day, Burley asked why the Labour donor was given access to No.