Out in sunny Rio de Janeiro for the G20 summit – an event no prime minister can easily avoid – Sir Keir Starmer is a world away from the first day of snow back home. It is hardly the prime minister’s fault that he finds himself, albeit briefly, in such an earthly paradise and among such rarified company; but he …
You could hardly have asked for a more old-fashioned protest outside the gates of Downing Street: everyone thanking the police, everyone doffing their caps at the capital’s war memorials, everyone being so frightfully well-behaved that, upon being asked not to march up to Parliament Square owing to sheer pressure of numbers, all very courteously complied. Robert Hardman joined farmers at …
