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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Ellie Violet Bramley

Power blazer? Victoria Starmer marks key political moment in cream

Victoria Starmer in cream jacket, jeans and shades walks hand in hand with Keir Starmer in dark jacket and shirt in urban street
Keir and Victoria Starmer walk to a polling station at Westminster Chapel in London to cast their votes in the local elections. Photograph: WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Not a white flag but a cream blazer was what Victoria Starmer chose to wear to accompany her husband, the prime minister, to vote on Thursday morning. She follows in a long line of women who have mobilised the power blazer at high-stakes moments.

Starmer’s, which looks much like a £1,690 ivory Alexander McQueen crepe design, comes hot on the lapels of another. In episode one of the new series of Amandaland, Amanda wears a beige double-breasted iteration in a high-stakes fictional moment: to give a toe-curling talk about her (not shallow) lifestyle brand Senuous as part of careers week at her kid’s school. Earlier in the week, the Princess of Wales launched the Foundations for Life report wearing a creamy beige high-waisted Roland Mouret suit.

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