QUENTIN LETTS: Sadly Keir's joke about the Budget perking up the economy didn't get the long laugh it richly deserved
QUENTIN LETTS: Sadly Keir's joke about the Budget perking up the economy didn't get the long laugh it richly deserved
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His poll ratings are diving like a guillemot and the economy has stalled at the traffic lights but Sir Keir Starmer could not have been more delighted with himself. Taking his seat at the Commons liaison committee, he beamed. These sessions are notorious for being turgid waffle-fests yet Sir Keir sat before the U-shaped table with discernible excitement.
![[Liam Byrne MP speaking at the Parliamentary Liaison Committee hearing]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/00/93337747-14212147-Liam_Byrne_MP_speaking_at_the_Parliamentary_Liaison_Committee_he-a-35_1734655616703.jpg)
Here was a portrait of pride, suntanned self-satisfaction in a sleek suit. Bronzed in December? Now we know what he does on those foreign trips. Don’t believe suggestions that his foreign-affairs adviser is Jonathan Powell. It’s really a Ms Ambre Solaire.
![[The Budget was intended to stabilise the economy,’ he claimed Starmer]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/01/93340131-14212147-image-a-36_1734659397795.jpg)
On the last day of term a mere 13 of the committee’s 31 MPs had found a hole in their diaries to listen to the old bore. Not that Sir Keir was put out by the threadbare matinee crowd. He gazed with immense pleasure through those designer spectacles that cut a wonkish horizontal across his peanut-shaped head.
His first word to the committee? ‘Great!’ Some of us dream of retiring to a cathedral close, others of escaping to Fifeshire golf links or a Goanese beach. For Starmer KC, it seems, life’s ambition was to sit opposite the prosaic boobies of the liaison committee and be quizzed on the grinding minutiae of his government’s ‘delivery’.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer attending a Parliamentary Liaison Committee hearing in London. Liam Byrne MP speaking at the Parliamentary Liaison Committee hearing. He launched into boasts about how his economic performance. ‘The Budget was intended to stabilise the economy,’ he claimed.
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