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Catherine Bennett

Victoria Starmer isn’t playing ball with the rightwing press. Good for her

Keir Starmer has an arm around his wife as she takes a selfie of the two of them.
Labour leader Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria, prior to the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Final between Italy and England at Wembley Stadium in July 2021. Photograph: Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images

It’s probably not coming up on the doorstep, but with limited material and time the opponents of Keir Starmer were bound, eventually, to alight on the question of his wife, Victoria.

That she appears to live a happy and productive life, works for the NHS, refuses to exhibit their children, turns up for formal and Labour party occasions, has not said anything silly and has yet, to add to these frustrations, to be convicted of overspending on clothes – are not, in the hands of ingenious analysts, insurmountable deterrents.

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