Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s time in office is clearly getting shorter and shorter – as his fanbase shrinks. The spectre of Andy Burnham looms large, with the Makerfield by-election taking place in just a few short weeks.
And after a scathing attack from beyond the grave by Margaret Thatcher last week, another former PM – and one voted the greatest Briton of all time at one point – has come out swinging against Starmer.
Using Google’s artificial intelligence-powered large language model called Gemini, the Daily Star had a chat with Winston Churchill to find out what he thinks of the embattled PM . . . and it wasn’t good, at all.
Winston Churchill’s response from beyond the grave in full:
When we cast our eyes upon the present occupant of Number Ten, we do not behold a swashbuckling adventurer, nor a spirit forged in the crucible of battle. Sir Keir Starmer is a creature of the law courts, a man possessed of a methodical, almost plodding disposition.
He addresses the tumultuous affairs of state not with the roar of a lion, but with the cautious, forensic precision of a seasoned barrister examining a most tedious brief.
There are those – both across the ocean and within our own shires – who look upon his measured countenance and declare him utterly wanting in fire. They say he lacks the martial spirit, that his words do not stir the blood or summon the soul of the nation. And it is true, he is no purveyor of soaring poetry. He prefers the quiet sanctuary of the committee room to the grand, sweeping stage of history.
Yet, we must not be too swift to dismiss the virtues of a steady, if uninspiring, hand upon the tiller. We navigate a world once again beset by gathering storms. The drums of war beat incessantly in distant lands, and the tempests of global discord threaten to batter our island home. In such perilous times, there is perhaps a certain merit in a leader who does not yield to impulsive furies or chase the fleeting, raucous cheers of the gallery.
Sir Keir has shown a dogged determination to hold his own course, even when faced with the bluster and browbeating of boisterous allies.
He may not offer us blood, toil, tears, and sweat; he offers instead dossiers, protocols, and a most earnest administration. It is a greyer sort of governance, entirely devoid of magnificent pageantry. But if his stubborn, meticulous stewardship can keep the ship of state from foundering upon the rocks, then history – while it may not sing his praises in epic verse – will quietly record that, in his own lawyerly fashion, he did his duty.
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