Sir Keir's Carry On cast is cleaning up

WHAT a carry on! Before entering No.10, Keir Starmer vowed to “clean up politics”.

- Esther McVey

Clearly what he meant was that he and his ministers would be cleaning up in politics with their free holidays, football tickets, designer suits, dresses and glasses. We don't have a “serious government” (to quote Starmer) running the country, we have a comedy cast which could have come straight from the Carry On films — only this lot aren’t funny.

There's “everybody out” Angela Rayner mimicking Bernard Bresslaw’s union rep in Carry On At Your Convenience — although others might say she’s more like Carry On Up The Khyber's Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond. Rachel Reeves is like Josh Fiddler in Carry On Camping, inventing ever more devious ways to extract money from people. And Starmer reminds me of Carry On Dick. Make of that what you will (in true Carry On style), but I'm referring to Sid James as Dick Turpin, robbing people blind while pretending to be holier than thou.