n TV interviews, Sir Keir Starmer can’t shake his rabbit-in-the-headlights unease, but on Desert Island Discs he unfurled. Quirky choices like Orange Juice and the northern soul legend Dobie Gray didn’t feel too focus-grouped. He described a childhood darkened by his mother’s chronic illness with rawness yet restraint; his passion for football, marked by the anthem Three Lions, was not some faux-everyman pose.
