It is not hard to see why Sir Keir Starmer ends up doing quite so many foreign trips.

On the road to Mumbai, India , from the airport there were giant pictures of the British prime minister looming over the sealed-off roads cleared for his special VIP convoy.

There was nothing short of a carnival along the roadside to greet the cars.

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Image: Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to an FA Premier League training facility in Mumbai. Pic: PA

People who knew nothing about Sir Keir - and were happy to admit so to me - dressed up for the occasion in plumes of feathers and chicken costumes and danced to music. The Labour conference does not come close to that.

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