In keeping with the shameless opportunism that has come to embody this government our pitiful PM gatecrashed the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking. Of course, he did.

The official reason was to try and reignite Labour’s failing drive to get more young people into apprenticeships. The fact Lando Norris won the F1 world championship just a few hours earlier was a mere coincidence.

If Sir Keir Starmer was hoping a little Surrey stardust might rub off on him he’s got another think coming.

The only thing that links Starmer (who has a net approval rating of -51) and Chancellor Rachel Reeves , who has left the economy in the pits, and F1 is that both endlessly go round in circles.

Muscling in at McLaren will fool no one because Britain is being lapped by most countries when it comes t

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