Shocking twist Starmer's TikToks are almost competent, but where's the dork?

The scene opens on the interior of an aeroplane.

- Matilda Boseley

A suited man in a luxurious seat looks pensively out the window, his face partially obscured, his chin delicately resting on his hand.Dreamy synths reverberate as the camera pans to show a fighter jet, hovering above the clouds just past the plane's wing.

It turns and flies away, its dark shadow set against the warm yellow sunset. "I'd explain, but it's classified," the TikTok video's caption reads, the username above revealing the identity of the mystery man: Keir Starmer.

In the comment section, one user puts a voice to the question on a thousand lips: "Why is our prime minister aura farming?"

When Starmer launched his TikTok account this week, many assumed it would feature the same cringeworthy content so many elected officials have given us.

Stiff line delivery, policy talking points awkwardly shoehorned into already outdated memes, and the feeling a PR person is holding them at gunpoint just out of shot.

But in a shocking twist, Starmer's TikToks are borderline competent. Most seem to be attempts at ultra short-form cinéma vérité - a camera operator following him