Did Keir church speech lead to cross words?

In his keynote speech to the Civil society last week, sir Keir starmer attacked the Conservatives for daring to draw attention to the fact that rampant wokery has afflicted beloved institutions such as the national Trust.

The venue for the Labour Leader’s broadside was st John’s Church in Waterloo — which proudly supports the Black Lives Matter movement and boasts strong links to what it calls the ‘LGBTQiA+’ community.

Yet i’m told that in the run-up to the event, the Labour team was fretting about a dramatic depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus on a huge mural — having it in the background might suggest that the Labour Leader was somehow comparing his own suffering to that of Our Lord.

sir Keir is an atheist and there was even talk of paying to have

Last week saw sir Keir starmer pictured with the Labour Party’s elected mayors, including Greater Manchester’s andy Burnham. But the line-up conspicuously omitted the most high-profile: London’s sadiq Khan. Does sir Keir think Khan could be turfed out by voters in May’s mayoral election? Or perhaps he just wants to avoid any association with Khan’s hated expansion of the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (Ulez) car tax — for which the flip-flopping Labour leader used to be a passionate advocate.

the crucifixion covered up — which would have been an extraordinary thing to do.

in the end, he spoke from the side of the church, rather than in front of the mural. Which all prompted the question: why hold his keynote speech in a church in the first place?