If someone does something once, it might be an accident. If they do it twice, it suggests a habit. But if they do it three times, it’s a communication strategy.

Keir Starmer said something rather noticeable in his speech yesterday . He mocked the politicians who’d told voters that “Brexit lies on the side of that bus, click here for your new country”. That made the ears prick up. It’s the first time in a very long time that the Prime Minister has spoken critically about Brexit.

You know he opposes it. He’s a human rights lawyer from north London. But he is usually too straitjacketed by Labour’s electoral strategy to say so publicly. Perhaps it was an accident, then. A slip of the tongue. Perhaps he let his feelings out by mistake and would keep them better concealed in future.

Then, m

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