The Daily Mail is up in arms about Sir Keir Starmer’s Downing Street refurb, which they have blasted as “outrageous” on today’s front cover (30/8).
The Labour leader wasted no time making a house a home as he moved into Number 10.
But instead of calling in expensive interior designers or splashing out thousands of pounds on questionable wallpaper, the newly-elected prime minister has requested a portrait of Margaret Thatcher be taken down, saying he finds the painting “unsettling”.
The painting was commissioned by Gordon Brown and financed through an anonymous donation that covered its £100,000 cost.
It was the first painting of a former Prime Minister ever requested by No 10.
Moves to take it down have provoked outrage among right-wingers, with one Tory calling it a “petty” move.
The Daily Mail has also cleared its front page to vent about Thatcher being shoved in storage, branding it “petty vindictiveness against a political giant by a PM of just seven weeks”.
Dry your eyes, lads!
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