QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer's lurching from boob to mishap - but the minute there's a crisis he locks himself in the loo. After claiming to be as pure as a teetotal missionary, the Man With All The Wrong Answers is about to get his comeuppance...
These are bumpy days for Lords of the Bedchamber. They, in history, were a king's most intimate courtiers, their fortunes closely allied to those of the monarch they served.