Why Keir Starmer’s dark shirts are a smart decision
telegraph.co.uknormally 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.
Of course, dark shirting has a chequered history where politics is concerned – we can’t forget Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirt thugs – but Starmer’s are navy and, in eschewing his previous line-up of white, he’s showing himself as a man of the people.
The dark shirt is deliberately non-establishment and non-corporate, at a time when the public are increasingly frustrated by those in power.
Starmer’s stance is smart in both senses: dark blue/grey still looks together, and the cut is clearly precise and neat, but it separates him from corporate clones in ice-white shirts.
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