Keir Starmer

The Labour leader – who famously had an earlier career as a renowned QC and clearly knows his way around a smart suit – has pivoted his style of late.

That’s understandable during August, when more lax rules apply around Westminster, but Starmer’s new look has been a long time coming. He has made several public appearances wearing dark-hued shirts, worn with suit jackets, and last month made the headlines by wearing a Stone Island polo shirt – normally the attire of festival-going millennials, rather than political leaders – at the Berlin Wall. In a recent speech in Liverpool, he promised to stand with striking workers while wearing a T-shirt underneath a suit jacket, alongside a raincoat, jeans and some Nike trainers – not quite Trotsky (or, perish the thought, Comrade Corbyn) but a deliberate shift towards working-man get-up.