Then Charlie Leadbeater, a senior editor, suggested I write as an imaginary character, and I thought “Yessss!”” she wrote years later.
“I said no because I thought it would be embarrassing and exposing. When Bridget first appeared in a newspaper column in 1995, Starmer was a human rights lawyer who specialised in David v Goliath battles, helping the environmentalists sued by McDonald’s over a leaflet criticising the company’s practices and working pro bono for the National Union of Mineworkers.įielding was a “singleton” about town when Bridget was born, after the Independent asked if she would write a first-person column about trying to find a boyfriend in London. And when he and Boris spar, it does remind me of Mark and Daniel.” I always want to say: ‘Come on, Keir, loosen your tie, ruffle up your hair.’ He doesn’t think of himself as sexy, but he’s really sexy.
He’s so good and decent and intelligent, but so buttoned up. In an interview with the Radio Times, Fielding said Starmer reminded her of Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the Bridget Jones films, particularly during prime minister’s questions.Īsked if Starmer was the real Darcy, Fielding said: “Well, I think he’s fantastic.
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