Keir Starmer has eliminated an “unsettling” portrait of Margaret Thatcher from Downing Avenue.
The portray of the previous Tory PM was commissioned by Gordon Brown when she visited No.10 in 2007.
It had been hanging in her former examine, which is now generally known as the Thatcher Room.
However creator and journalist Tom Baldwin, who’s Starmer’s biographer, has revealed that the PM has determined to take it down.
Talking on the Aye Write ebook pageant in Glasgow, Baldwin mentioned the pair had not too long ago gone to the examine to “have a quiet speak”.
Baldwin mentioned: “We sat there, and I am going, ‘It’s a bit unsettling together with her staring down at you want that, isn’t it’?”
When Starmer agreed, Baldwin requested if he would “do away with it”.
He mentioned Starmer nodded, including: “And he has.”
Downing Avenue sources confirmed to HuffPost UK that the portrait has now been eliminated.
The transfer has been criticised by Russell Findlay, who’s the bookies’ favorite to be the subsequent chief of the Scottish Tories.
He mentioned: “Gordon Brown commissioned this portrait after calling the primary feminine Prime Minister ‘a conviction politician who noticed the necessity for change’.
“I agree with Gordon Brown’s cheap place to deal with his political opponents with decency and respect.
“Keir Starmer appears to have a way more petty strategy.”
