Opinion | The Guardian•Today at 05:00
In the UK, Keir Starmer has few fans. I learned that in China it’s a very different story | Martin Rowson
I had Keir Starmer down as a non-ideological technocratic centrist dad the moment I first clocked him, with a tin ear for both simple human interaction and the darker subtleties of the political arts. That said, Starmer couldn’t be blamed for taking comfort wherever he can, and there are worse places than China to be the object of a little adulation. Add to that our son’s phone’s initial translation of the Chinese characters representing Starmer’s transliterated name on the sign in Kunming: “British Prime Minister Star Beast”.
