Senior Labour figures are urging Keir Starmer to take a leaf out of Donald Trump’s book and make more frequent media appearances in an attempt to dominate the political agenda as the US president does.
MPs told the Guardian they want the prime minister to act more like Trump, who has upended political convention by televising large parts of his cabinet, holding long bilateral meetings on camera and calling in to live television shows.
There’s probably a case for saying it doesn’t need specifically to be the PM. In principle Starmer could crack on with things behind closed doors as long as there’s somebody sharp, likeable and media-savvy to counter Farage every day. I guess the risk is you’d have to be a very self-confident PM, unafraid of leadership challenge, to go for that
Agreed however you very much run the risk then of the other parties claiming that this public figurehead is the real PM and getting all that dumb rhetoric around it.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of with that final sentence