Former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher (Image: Getty)
Sir Keir Starmer has been ridiculed for removing a portrait of Margaret Thatcher because he found it "unsettling".
The Prime Minister's biographer, Tom Baldwin, said Sir Keir wanted it taken down from the study dubbed the Thatcher Room after a meeting between the pair.
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Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown had commissioned the painting.
Speaking at an event organised by Glasgow's Aye Write book festival, Mr Baldwin said Sir Keir had called the study a "place where we can go and have a quiet talk".
He told attendees: "We sat there, and I go: 'It's a bit unsettling with her staring down at you like that, isn't it?'"
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Mr Baldwin said the PM gave a one-word response: "Yeah."
In reply, he then asked if Sir Keir would "get rid of" the six-figure portrait, prompting a nod from the PM. Mr Baldwin added: "And he has."
Former Tory minister Esther McVey said: "What a pathetic, petty-minded little man Keir Starmer is - removing a picture of the first female prime minister and one of the longest-serving prime ministers. Maybe he doesn’t want to be reminded of a towering politician he could never live up to."
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