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'I like landscapes:' Starmer defends removing Thatcher portrait (www.heraldscotland.com)

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News that the picture - commissioned by Gordon Brown - had been removed was first reported in The Herald last month.

Politicians on the right were furious at the decision.

Former first minister of Northern Ireland and DUP leader Baroness Arlene Foster described it as “vindictive and petty."

Asked why he had relocated the portrait, Sir Keir said: “I use the study for quietly reading most afternoons where I have got to have… where there is a difficult paper that I need to.

“This is not actually about Margaret Thatcher at all. I don’t like images and pictures of people staring down at me.

“I’ve found it all my life. When I was a lawyer I used to have pictures of judges. I don’t like it. I like landscapes.

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“I might tolerate Thierry Henry on the wall, but that's about as far as I go.”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

He should have left it out in the rain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I hope he removed her straight into the rubbish bin.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The better response was "It's my private study and I can have any pictures I want in it". Unfortunately he said that second.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

And it doesn't make a punchy headline.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Keep the picture but turn it sideways, then everyone's happy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

He manages to give the dullest answer. Tell the press you've cut a hole in it that you use daily for your own sexual pleasure and, once you've finished defiling it, you'll burn it in the garden of 10 Downing Street exactly as you always imagined torching the old witch when she was alive. Or something like that.