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Labour leader Keir Starmer, who polls suggest will be the next British prime minister, can work, and work with “ridiculously small amounts of sleep”.

Labour leader Keir Starmer, who polls suggest will be the next British prime minister, can work, and work with “ridiculously small amounts of sleep”.

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Pilita Clark

In less than one week’s time, Britain may be led by a man with a capacity for work that his friends say is phenomenal, ferocious and slightly exhausting to watch.

I discovered this last week after reading one of the many biographies of Mr Keir Starmer or, as I have come to think of him, Keir Starmina.

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