Sir Keir Starmer needs to “shed a few pounds” before the general election, Labour grandee Peter Mandelson has said. Lord Mandelson, one of the architects of New Labour, said Sir Keir needed to lose weight to appeal to voters. In an interview with Times Radio on Tuesday (5 March), Lord Mandelson said: “My problem with Rishi Sunak’s fashion is that he wears these skinny suits and narrow ties and they diminish him “Just to be even-handed about it, by the same token, Keir Starmer needs to shed a few pounds.”