Boris’s little brother Leo backs Sir Keir

SOCIAL media posts can be ever so revealing. Who is the unlikeliest fan of Labour’s new leader Sir Keir Starmer? None other, it seems, than our Tory Prime Minister’s own younger brother, Leo Johnson, who has ‘liked’ a series of gushingly positive tweets about the millionaire former lawyer. One of the missives Leo, 52, has approved was posted by Starmer himself, showing a room full of cheering fans bearing the slogan: ‘Together, we can achieve the impossible.’

Another, from London Mayor Sadiq Khan, claimed that Starmer was ‘the best person to unite our party, take the fight to the Tories and put Labour in government’.

Leo is perhaps the least wellknown of Boris’s spotlighthogging siblings, after journalist Rachel and former minister Jo. he works as a forecaster for accountancy firm PwC.

Yet Boris is used to fraternal disloyalty. Jo quit his own brother’s Government last September, while Rachel unsuccessfully fought to be an MEP for pro-EU party Change UK — and was once a member of the Lib Dems.

Leo has said he differs from his ferociously ambitious relatives: ‘I’m born with the gene for self-publicity missing or at least defective. It comes on and off, and when it comes on, no one is interested.’

No one, perhaps, except Boris, who might look askance at the fact that Leo is quietly informing the world he supports kicking his brother out of Downing Street.

LANDING with a smack on Starmer’s desk on his first day as leader was a damning indictment of why Labour lost the last election, written by the New Labour pressure group Progress.

‘Jeremy Corbyn and the politics he represents alienated the general public,’ declares the group. ‘ Our contorted Brexit policy ended up pleasing no one.’

And which political contortionist was responsible for this policy? Step forward ex-Labour Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer!