So it's 'Call me Keir', is it? Sounds very informal. But we shouldn't be fooled. 'I'm very happy to be called Keir or prime minister,' he said at his first Downing Street news conference. 'Perfectly happy to be called Keir.' How very Sir Tony Blair. At his first cabinet meeting in 1997, Sir Tony famously began by telling his ministers: 'Just call me Tony.
There was no bombshell announcement like Gordon Brown's independence for the Bank of England after Mr Blair's 1997 landslide. But that was on the Tuesday after the election, so there's still time for a bombshell! His four-nation tour over the next few days, followed by talks with metro-mayors, Conservative as well as Labour, was also revealing about the Starmer style. 'I'm not a tribal politician,' he claimed. Well, it is early days.