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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey Policy editor

Was Keir Starmer’s leaving party the boozy birth of a new Labour force?

Keir Starmer outside the Grafton pub, talking on the phone with a drink in his hand
Keir Starmer was photographed, drink in hand, outside the Grafton pub in Kentish Town on Monday night. Photograph: Unknown/no credit

Keir Starmer’s leaving party had been planned for some time. But in years to come it might be seen as the birth of a new Labour movement.

Dozens of ministers, aides and Starmer himself headed to the Grafton pub in Kentish Town on Monday night to drown their sorrows, hours after the former prime minister left Downing Street for the last time.

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