Starmer pitch perfect on love and grief as Commons meets to pay tribute to Queen

Death takes us to unusual places. Who would have imagined that Boris Johnson could have reinvented himself as the voice of the nation? Or that Theresa May could turn out to be a gifted after-dinner speaker with a nice line in gags? Or that the Met Office would decide to stop weather forecasting for the next 10 days? We can all just get wet instead. As a mark of respect. It’s what the Queen would have wanted. Apparently. Cancel culture.

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