Making a mockery of Labour

Humorists are struggling to draw a bead on Sir Keir Starmer’s team of unknowns

“YOU MUST,” PEOPLE SAY to me, “miss the Tories. They were so much easier to sketch.” Behind my back, they are blunter. “When is Hutton going to get a fix on Starmer?” someone asked the editor. It’s a fair enough question. As a sketchwriter, charged with mocking the government, I used to wake each morning confident the Conservatives would have done something daft by lunchtime. Indeed there were moments when we wondered if we should move to two sketches a day, just to get it all in. Since July, it has been harder work. It would be unfair to blame ministers for this. They are, as in so many areas, trying to deliver for us, but hampered by their inexperience: they just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could.…

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