Keir Starmer is absolutely not eager on a portrait of the previous Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher hanging in 10 Downing Road—a lot in order that he has apparently eliminated the image from the partitions of his residence.
In keeping with The Guardian, Starmer’s biographer, Tom Baldwin, informed guests to Glasgow’s Aye Write guide pageant a few latest assembly with Starmer in Thatcher’s former examine the place the portray was housed. Baldwin stated: “We sat there, and I’m going: ‘It’s a bit unsettling along with her staring down as you want that, isn’t it?’” Starmer replied sure and, when requested whether or not he would “do away with it”, the prime minister nodded, stated Baldwin. The biographer insists that the Thatcher portray hangs no extra in Downing Road.
The portrait of Thatcher, painted by Richard Stone, was commissioned by the previous prime minister Gordon Brown and unveiled at a non-public reception in 2009. We reached out to Stone and likewise to No. 10 who stated that they had “nothing additional so as to add”—but nonetheless, the plot thickens.
Earlier as we speak (30 August) Baroness Jacqui Smith informed LBC radio that “footage of Margaret Thatcher will stay in No 10”. Whether or not her assertion shall be sufficient to decrease the numerous eyebrows nonetheless being raised at each the obvious brutal take down the truth that a titan of the Labour Get together commissioned the work within the first place, stays to be seen…
