Sir Keir Starmer goes face to face with canine robot called Beethoven on trip to Liverpool

FAMOUSLY robotic Sir Keir Starmer went face to face with a canine machine called Beethoven in Liverpool.

Risking another trans row, the opposition leader, who can’t say if a woman has a penis, asked experts at the Manufacturing Technology Centre if “he or she has a name” yesterday.

It came as Labour erupted into yet another civil war after the leadership tore up plans to renationalise major industries.

Shadow treasury chief Rachel Reeves reckoned there is no way she would splurge billions buying up old utilities in Soviet-style state planning.

Sir Keir backed her, then after a shadow cabinet backlash U-turned and said he would buy up rail firms.

But the TUC continued to stick the boot in and demanded renationalisation of energy companies.

This visit comes as last month, Sir Keir Starmer declared himself a blank space - ripping up all Labour’s policies and starting again. 

Sir Keir - who has been in charge for almost two years - said he was “wiping the slate clean” on existing Labour plans.

He said he would be tearing up the party’s 2019 manifesto, which he stood on while trying to get Jeremy Corbyn into No10.

Speaking, Sir Keir said: “What we’ve done with the last manifesto is put to one side."

He added: “The slate is wiped clean.”