Sir Keir Starmer relied for five years on an actress and communications skills coach to improve his public speaking and interview performances, a new book has revealed. The prime minister relied on ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s voice coach travelled between Covid tiers to visit the prime minister during lockdown, it has emerged. Leonie Mellinger visited Labour’s London office on Christmas Eve in 2020, when ...

In 2017, Keir Starmer, then-shadow Brexit secretary, addressed the Labour Party conference in Brighton. Standing at the lectern, reading from the autocue, Starmer gave a hesitant, nasal, dreary kind ...

Exclusive: Leonie Mellinger believes media storm minimised her role as key part of Labour leader’s team The media storm around Keir Starmer’s lockdown “voice coaching” was “revolting”, inaccurate and ...

Downing Street today insisted Sir Keir Starmer's meeting with his voice coach at the height of Covid restrictions had to be in person as they denied a breach of rules. The PM has been left facing ...

Is history repeating itself in the row over Sir Keir Starmer's voice coach Leonie Mellinger? After all, she is not the first person who has coached a prime minister to be caught in political ...

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Leonie Mellinger says ‘nudge nudge, wink wink’ response to story ‘would not have happened if I was a man’ Genevieve Holl-Allen is a Political Correspondent for The Telegraph. She has covered ...

Communication skills specialist Leonie Mellinger is understood to have joined both the Prime Minister and Rachel Reeves to work during the pandemic. Downing Street has defended the voice coach who Sir ...