For much of the last week of the election campaign, Rishi Sunak chose to portray Keir Starmer as something of a slacker. A man who would allow a country to invade the UK if it interrupted his Friday night TV schedule. As for weekends, you could forget it. A write-off. Keir needed his lie-ins and his phone would be switched off. Call back on Monday after 9.30am.
On the basis of the last 72 hours, the Tories should have taken a leaf out of the new prime minister’s book. Because it turns out that Keir can get a lot done while he’s in bed. Or when he’s sleepwalking. The somnambulist’s somnambulist. Some might even argue he’s achieved more in three days than the Tories managed in the last 18 months.
