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Huffington Post // Entertainment

Steve Coogan Compares Keir Starmer Unfavourably To Thatcher: 'I Never Thought I'd Say That'

Friday 4th July 2025, 9:10AM


Steve Coogan in 2022Steve Coogan has admitted he’s so unimpressed with Keir Starmer that he thinks the prime minister could actually learn something from Margaret Thatcher.During a new interview with iNews, Steve was asked about his most famous comedy creation, Alan Partridge, and pointed out similarities between the character and Starmer.“In some ways, he’s a bit like Keir Starmer: ‘What direction is the wind going in? Which way is this going? Let me quickly push my way to the front and look like I was leading you’,” the Bafta winner claimed.

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