SIR Keir Starmer was branded “Sir Sleepy” yesterday after disappearing off the campaign trail.
The Tories appeared to make an issue of 61-year-old Labour chief’s age by saying: “it’s understandable that he may be weary.”
The dig – which echoes Donald Trump’s “Sleepy Joe” nickname for elderly US President Joe Biden – came after Sir Keir appeared absent from any election events on Sunday.
A Tory source mocked: “Campaigns are tough, tiring things and it’s understandable that he may be weary.
“But being Prime Minister is a 24/7 job which requires stamina.”
However Sir Keir’s spokesman hit back insisting he was “working round the clock, enjoying taking our message of change to the country.
“We were out speaking with voters across the country within half an hour of the election being called.”
Meanwhile the PM has been holed up with his aides at his house, the Tory Party chair spent yesterday afternoon at a pub in Westminster and the Cabinet appear to have completely disappeared.”
Meanwhile the PM chose not to go to Wembley to see his beloved Southampton FC win the play-off 1:0 against Leeds United.
Aides denied it was fear of getting booed by 80,000 fans that meant he swerved the chance to cheer on his boyhood team.
