Good morning. Southampton are 14th in the league! Look, if totally irrelevant references to your football team’s place in the table are good enough for the opening of Keir Starmer’s big conference speech, they’ll do the job for the top of First Edition.
Everyman sporting banalities aside, the Labour leader’s appearance yesterday could hardly have come at a more opportune moment: a sterling crisis, the cost of borrowing soaring, rate rises all but inevitable, 300 mortgage deals pulled in a single day, and Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng already reportedly at loggerheads. You might say Starmer had an … open goal. Could he finish?
