Sir Keir Starmer relied for five years on an actress and communications skills coach to improve his public speaking and interview performances, a new book has revealed. The prime minister relied on ...
Sir Keir Starmer’s voice coach travelled between Covid tiers to visit the prime minister during lockdown, it has emerged. Leonie Mellinger visited Labour’s London office on Christmas Eve in 2020, when ...
In 2017, Keir Starmer, then-shadow Brexit secretary, addressed the Labour Party conference in Brighton. Standing at the lectern, reading from the autocue, Starmer gave a hesitant, nasal, dreary kind ...
Sir Keir Starmer used a Shakespearean actress to help him get over stage fright as she admits he would 'shut down' when he was out of his comfort zone. The premier first called in communications coach ...
Downing Street has defended the voice coach who Sir Keir Starmer met in December 2020 as a “core part of a small team” working with him during the pandemic, as the Tories claimed she broke lockdown ...
Sir Keir Starmer must 'come clean' over who paid for his voice coaching, MPs have said. The Prime Minister received five years of voice coaching from Leonie Mellinger, a former Royal Shakespeare ...
Mr Perfect is not so perfect, it seems. Given away by his loose-lipped voice coach Leonie Mellinger, Keir Starmer faces allegations of rule-breaking during the pandemic. While London was in Tier 4 ...