'Glitter' still on Starmer's face day after protester struck
Glitter gets everywhere, doesn’t it Sir Keir? Eagle-eyed tweeters spot shimmering substance on Labour leader’s face the morning after he was doused by a protester at party conference – as ‘Sparkle With Starmer’ t-shirts go on sale for for £20
- Supporters can unleash their ‘inner shimmer’ when they pre-order the t-shirt
It is one of the most stubbornly persistent substances known to man, often taking days, weeks or months to disappear completely.
And Sir Keir Starmer may be picking glitter out of his suit for some time after being targeted by a protestor on stage at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday.
He certainly appeared to still be wearing some of the shimmering material on his face as he toured TV and radio studios this morning, the day after the security lapse.
Eagle-eyed viewers took to X, formerly Twitter, to suggest that he still had a little something in his eyebrow as he brushed off the incident carried out by an ‘idiot’.
One Good Morning Britain viewer, Kyran Williamson, tweeted: ‘Can someone let Keir Starmer know he still has a bit of glitter in his eyebrow and chin.’
And other spotted it still on his face when he appeared on BBC Breakfast.
Team Starmer are offering limited-edition t-shirts with the slogan ‘Sparkle with Starmer’ after a protester showered the Labour leader with glitter during the party’s conference in Liverpool yesterday.
Supporters can unleash their ‘inner shimmer’ by wearing the white t-shirt that features a ‘sparkle design’, which can be pre-ordered from the Labour Party’s gift shop for £20.
Sir Keir appeared to still be wearing some of the shimmering material on his face as he toured TV and radio studios this morning, the day after the security lapse.
Team Starmer are offering limited-edition t-shirts with the slogan ‘Sparkle With Starmer’ after a protester showered the Labour leader with glitter
A description on the online gift shop for the t-shirt says: ‘Unleash your inner shimmer and shine with our brand new, exclusive, “Sparkle with Starmer” t-shirt!’
On Tuesday afternoon, before Sir Keir could start his speech setting out how he would run the country, Yaz Ashmawi, 28, poured glitter over the Labour leader while yelling ‘democracy is in crisis’.
In the shocking security breach in Liverpool yesterday afternoon, Mr Ashmawi managed to reach the stage unchallenged, and get his arms around the opposition leader in a grip for several seconds before bodyguards tackled him and dragged the disrupter away.
The protester, who has links to eco-groups Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, was arrested on suspicion of assault, breach of the peace and causing public nuisance.
The Labour leader looked bemused and tried to keep Ashmawi at arm’s length until security tackled the protester and led him off stage.
Sir Keir then brushed off the glitter, and told a cheering conference: ‘If he thinks that bothers me he doesn’t know me.’
The Labour leader used the speech to claim the ‘tide is turning’ for Labour today as he gave potentially his last conference speech before an election.
He insisted he is the leader to ‘heal’ the country – but warned it will require a ‘decade of national renewal’. Sir Keir said he had turned Labour into a ‘party of service’, ‘renewed’ after the Corbyn era.
Sir Keir praised the spirit of the British people despite the ‘Tory project to kick the hope out of this country’.
Promising to reshape the country with 1.5 million homes including new towns, modernised infrastructure and support for green industries, Sir Keir said ‘the fire of change still burns in Britain’ and it ‘lives on in Labour’.
With a general election next year and Labour enjoying double-digit poll leads, Sir Keir warned that the ‘dangerous’ Tories would ‘scorch the earth just to get at us’.
And if he did win the keys to No 10, the scale of the challenge would be immense compared with his predecessors.
With a general election next year and Labour enjoying double-digit poll leads, Sir Keir warned that the ‘dangerous’ Tories would ‘scorch the earth just to get at us’
On Tuesday afternoon, before Sir Keir could start his speech setting out how he would run the country for a decade, Yaz Ashmawi, 28, poured glitter over the Labour leader
The Labour leader looked bemused and tried to keep Ashmawi at arm’s length until security tackled the protester and led him off stage
‘If you think our job in 1997 was to rebuild a crumbling public realm, that in 1964 it was to modernise an economy left behind by the pace of technology, in 1945 to build a new Britain out of the trauma of collective sacrifice, then in 2024 it will have to be all three.’
Sir Keir put reforming the ‘restrictive planning system’ at the core of his plan to secure economic growth.
The system was ‘a blockage that stops this country building roads, grid connections, laboratories, trainlines, warehouses, windfarms, power stations’ and ‘an obstacle to the aspirations of millions’.
The plan to ‘get Britain building again’ would ‘fight the blockers who hold a veto over British aspiration’.
The 1.5 million homes promised by would involve new development corporations with powers to cut through red tape and the creation of the ‘next generation of Labour new towns’.
He insisted his plans would not mean ‘tearing up the green belt’ but building could take place in areas where that protection was ‘clearly ridiculous’.
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