Sir Keir Starmer’s desperation to get down with the kids hit new lows in the run up to the local elections. The Prime Minister’s team genuinely think that the best way to bring the ‘real Keir’ to the youngsters is bypassing the lens of the evil right-wing media and heading straight to… TikTok! Given its links to Beijing, so much for being the party of Sinoscepticisim…

The strategy certainly hasn’t come without risks. In January Labour issued a grovelling apology........

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