The voice coach at the centre of Keir Starmer's lockdown scandal 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.
But when Starmer’s team first approached her to coach their hopeful future leader, Mellinger was reportedly less than impressed, describing his autocue reading skills as “somewhat wooden”.
Now Starmer has been left to fend off questions about whether he bent the rules to give his acting coach key worker status.
According to the timeline in the book, Mellinger visited Labour’s London headquarters on Christmas Eve 2020, while the capital was in Tier 4 lockdown regulations – where everyone was told to stay home.
