It is as though the crisis over Ukraine has catalysed a man pigeonholed as a timid leader with a robotic style. The Mk II Starmer is bold – a shaper of international events, rather than the ...

Starmer, whose default setting is stiff, buttoned-up and rather robotic, looked natural, smiley and in his element. In fact, given the heaps of ordure that Starmer has had thrown over him since he ...