Starmerian

comparative more Starmerian · superlative most Starmerian

1. UKgovernmentOf or pertaining to Keir Starmer (born 1962), British Labour politician and Prime Minister since 2024.

   Labour’s retort was a very passive, Starmerian picture of their leader in neutral white T-shirt to watch the first England-Serbia fixture, lest he rock the incumbent Scottish vote.

   2024 June 21, Paul Flynn, “Only Sadiq Khan would be truly welcome at Pride — other politicians have lost their right”, in Evening Standard

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   Mashed alongside these faux-mateyisms, were classically clumsy Starmerian metaphors. He spoke of “reservoirs of confidence”, “bonds of hope” between state and individual, “the well of disrespect”.

   2023 July 6, Madeline Grant, “Keir Starmer’s speech is interrupted by protesters - hurrah for some excitement!”, in The Telegraph

   I’d be the first to admit that at least some elements of that agenda are self-contradictory, and the faint whiff of freshly baked cakeism is caught by one’s nostrils when surveying this Starmerian vision of Britain in the year 2034.

   2024 January 4, Sean O’Grady, “Will 2024 be the year of ‘Starmer the radical’?”, in The Independent