With a new political memoir on the horizon, juicy snippets of scandal about Keir Starmer’s journey to No 10 are being slowly drip-fed to the press. This week’s brewing scandal centres on Leonie Mellinger, an actress turned voice coach who may have contravened lockdown rules to train up the future Prime Minister.
The story behind Mellinger and Keir’s working relationship is detailed in Get In, a soon-to-be published book on Starmer’s Labour from Times journalists Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Macguire. It’s serialisation in their paper has already produced such zingers (from an unnamed source) as “[Keir] thinks he’s driving the train, but we’ve sat him at the front of the DLR.”
