Keir Starmer admits true reason Margaret Thatcher portrait was moved from No10 office

Keir Starmer has revealed the true reason he moved a portrait of Margaret Thatcher from his study.

The Prime Minister sparked fury from right-wingers by pulling down the divisive former Tory PM's likeness from his No10 office. The portrait by Richard Stone depicts Lady Thatcher just after the Falklands War in 1982 and had been hanging in her former study, which is unofficially known as the Thatcher Room.

But it is believed to have been moved to another room in Downing Street since Mr Starmer took power. The Prime Minister told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he ditched the portrait as doesn't like "pictures of people staring down at me".

He 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.

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Its a child like move, she existed she is part of our history.