The Labour leader has been keen to highlight his time as Britain's top prosecutor - but could the very thing he seeks to promote provide the Tories with the ammunition they need to attack him?
"One of the areas where Starmer is really open to criticism is this constant claiming that he personally prosecuted this person or that person, and then when something went wrong and someone wasn't prosecuted, or the case was messed up, he says 'It's nothing to do with me'."You can't have it both ways - the person at the top of the organisation is responsible and is the one who will have to issue a public apology when things go wrong.
Mr Chambers subsequently appealed his case and won, with a number of high-profile comedians including Stephen Fry, Al Murray and Graham Linehan all backing him. The first public attack on Sir Keir's past record came when former prime minister Boris Johnson accused the Labour leader'More to come': Labour defends attack ads
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