Digested week: Another PM bites the dust and it’s surprisingly moving | John Crace
Key takeaways
- Keir dashed out moments after the lectern was in place.
- MondayHard to believe, but in my 12 and a half years as the Guardian’s political sketch writer, I am about to embark on my seventh prime minister.
- When I first started in the lobby in 2014 there had been only four prime ministers in the previous 23 years.
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Keir dashed out moments after the lectern was in place. Almost as if he wanted to get the speech over and done with with as few people watching as possible. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Keir dashed out moments after the lectern was in place. Almost as if he wanted to get the speech over and done with with as few people watching as possible. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock Digested week Keir Starmer Digested week: Another PM bites the dust and it’s surprisingly movingJohn CracePlus, World Cup fever, EU referendum 10th anniversary, feeling the heat in Westminster and cancer
MondayHard to believe, but in my 12 and a half years as the Guardian’s political sketch writer, I am about to embark on my seventh prime minister. There was a time when we Britons took the piss out of the Italians for their rapid turnover of prime ministers. Now the laugh is on us.
When I first started in the lobby in 2014 there had been only four prime ministers in the previous 23 years. We’ve now churned through four in four years. The lineup of former prime ministers at the Cenotaph parade on Remembrance Day gets longer and longer. In a decade or so there will only be a handful of people who can recognise Liz Truss.