Keir Starmer ‘gets rid of’ 10 Downing Street’s Thatcher portrait

The ‘unsettling’ Thatcher portrait hangs between the then PM David Cameron and Irish taoiseach Enda Kenny in 2011, two years after its unveiling. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/EPA

Keir Starmer has had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from No 10 Downing Street, according to his biographer.

Tom Baldwin said that after Starmer took office he had spoken with the prime minister in Thatcher’s former No 10 study, unofficially known as the Thatcher Room, where a portrait of her was on display.