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Originally Posted by Russ
That’s what I initially liked about Starmer. Solicitors are well-trained in leading their opponent unknowingly down a path during questioning, waiting for the right moment to strike and twisting them up in knots. In the early stages after his leadership win he used these skills to great effect against Boris who would be rendered unable to fall back on his “bumbling lovable rogue” gimmick, until his advisers trained him how to not fall for Starmer’s skills.
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PMQ gimmicks never last long. It always reverts to normal. Starmer still does attempt to lay traps for the PM and isn't bad at it but he has ditched the props he had.
Corbyn had the e-mails for a while.
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Originally Posted by Russ
Didn’t Blair attend some PR course in America just after he became Labour leader run by the same people who advised Bill Clinton?
Starmer certainly won’t have that kind of experience.
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Blair was just naturally good at it I think. They all have media training but I think it's hard to fake that natural fluency Blair had. Blair was good at staying on message without sounding like a robot and repeating the same line. He was quick enough to adapt his answer to the question without going off-script and saying something he didn't intend to say when going into the interview.
Starmer has got better at that but he isn't a natural. He doesn't look like he is scared to death of interviews anymore at least.