Dear Editor
Dear Editor
I read the other day that Sir Keir Starmer’s father was called Rodney. The source I was reading also repeated the rumour that he was a toolmaker, but as TTK is the only one that ever talks about that, and nobody believes a word he says, the evidence is flimsy.
But it did get me thinking back to that immortal picture of TTK and Ange, uncomfortably posed ‘taking the knee’ in a House of Commons meeting room.
When I saw that picture, my immediate question was about the suit. Because I could recall only one other person who had ever appeared in tailoring of that particularly electric shade of blue. And that was Trigger in Only Fools and Horses – he was wearing the suit in question in the equally immortal Delboy pratfall scene:
Perhaps TTK is a Fools and Horses fan who identified with Trigger as a character who shared his social inadequacy?
Alan Potts
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