Keir Starmer and his family will have a short overseas holiday over the New Year, Downing Street said.
While the prime minister has used Chequers to officially welcome his country back, this will be the family’s first overseas holiday since the general election, when a European break was postponed in August due to the ongoing unrest.
Starmer will spend Christmas with his family at Checkers before traveling abroad “for a few days” over the New Year, his official spokesman said. He did not say where they were going.
Asked if Angela Rayner, the deputy first minister, was officially in charge for the time being, the spokesman said Starmer would remain at the helm.
Prime Minister He had already spoken before about his efforts to carve out time for his wife, Victoria, and their teenage children, and the difficulties of doing so at his job.
In August, their breakup was called off due to a series of violent incidents in towns and cities following the death of three girls in a stabbing attack at a dance class in Southport on July 29. Axel Rudakubana, who was then 17, did not condemn their murder.
While it is accepted that politicians tend to be better at their jobs if they can explain it properly, the prospect of leaving the country when something bigger is going on can be difficult.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in the face of criticism for he was on a family beach holiday in Greece for several days as the Afghan government collapsed following the US-UK military withdrawal from the country.
In a more directly parallel sentence with Starmer, in August Boris Johnson was sentenced for what appeared to be a remote return from his family in the US in 2011, when serious riots were taking place in London, where he was mayor.
sister of Rachel Johnson. he said recently Part of that was because the family were on a motorhome vacation and had no cell phone signal. When the news arrived, he said, Johnson’s wife, Marina Wheeler, was too short to pedal the motorhome, so he had to drive her to the airport before flying home.