Sir Keir Starmer reveals his favourite song as an angst-filled student anthem of jealousy

SIR Keir Starmer has revealed his favourite song – an angst-filled student anthem of jealousy and betrayal.

The Labour boss named My Favourite Dress by Leeds indie band The Wedding Present as his top tune.

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Sir Keir Starmer has revealed his favourite song is My Favourite Dress by Leeds indie band The Wedding Present[/caption]

Sir Keir said he befriended David Gedge, the band’s frontman, when they were Leeds University students in the mid-80s.

“My favourite song has to be My Favourite Dress. David has managed to perfectly distil the tortuous agonising feelings of jealousy into three minutes of angst,” writes Starmer in All The Songs Sound The Same, a new book about the band.

“The guitar hook is pretty great too,” Sir Kier added.

In the 1987 song, once a favourite of BBC DJ John Peel, Gedge sings of “The tender caress that brings out the man. I can’t still be drunk at five. Oh, I guess I surely can.”

The epic mope concludes: “To see it all in a drunken kiss. A stranger’s hand on my favourite dress.”