ACTOR AND Labour grandee Glenda Jackson has some PR advice for Keir Starmer, saying the Labour leader should hire a voice coach. “I just wish Keir would get someone to help him develop his voice,” she said, calling it “one of his big drawbacks”. Jackson had no kind words for Boris Johnson after his multiple cabinet resignations yesterday, saying: “I’m hoping that Boris will have disappeared by the end of today”, to crowd applause.
The well-spoken two-time Oscar-winner, who became an MP for 23 years as a hiatus from acting, also discussed sexism in theatre, saying she finds it “bewildering” to see that “contemporary dramatists are more interested in men than women”. She added: “Women are not regarded as being essential or primary movers, or something that can actually change things”.
