Keir Starmer: Up close and personal
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Critics say the Labour leader is robotic, boring and hard to read, but is that all there is to the man in the running to become the next prime minister? The Sunday Times has spent three months on the campaign trail in search of the real Keir Starmer.
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| 1:37.0 | He's almost certainly going to be the next Prime minister, but what do we really know about |
| 1:45.7 | Sir Kere Starma? |
| 1:47.8 | The problem is that I think for the public, no one really trusts that we know who he really is. |
| 1:54.0 | A criticism that has been made many, many times of Kair Sharma that he doesn't seem to have anyway |
| 2:00.0 | much of a personality coming through. |
| 2:02.0 | I think Angela Reyna has described him as an undershera. |
| 2:05.0 | What's behind the controlled, cautious, |
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