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Guto Harri

OPINION - Keir Starmer is a Milk Tray man — I fear he’s too bland

Neither has natural charisma yet the next election is shaping up as a high personal battle between Milk Tray man and the Godiva geek …

It took me a while to work out why the cover of the Labour Party conference programme looked familiar. It wasn’t Wham or indeed any other record sleeve, though it certainly took me back. The black shirt, strong hairline and hard stare off camera resurrected a far more obscure memory of a chocolate advert dating back to the late sixties.

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