Sir Keir Starmer’s “My First Steps” is a very small six-page booklet folded into a concertina that, if not handled carefully, has a tendency to spring open like Joey Tribbiani’s giant roll of condoms.
A copy had been diligently laid out on all the seats at the Royal Opera House for the Labour leader’s most recent not even thinly disguised campaign relaunch.
Well, not the Royal Opera House exactly. The Royal Opera House’s costume and production centre, hidden away on an industrial estate in Purfleet, Essex, right behind Lakeside Shopping Centre. It’s been there for nearly ten years, ten minutes from my house, as it happens. Whoever knew?
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Starmer’s “My First Steps” are meant to be his first steps for government, but the title does
