Keir Starmer faces friendly fire

Matt Chorley: ‘BBC impartiality is in the eye of the beholder’

On the morning of his first BBC 5 Live show last September, Matt Chorley was cutting it fine. He was out in south-east London, interviewing Sir Keir Starmer at a school in Orpington, while his production team were nervously watching the clock – he needed to be back in central London and on air by 2pm. “It was overambitious,” Chorley admits, “but I said to them, if I miss the start of my own first show, it would be great publicity.”As it happened…

Keir Starmer faces friendly fire

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics. Today, Sir Keir Starmer heads to Albania to announce a crackdown on migra…