He tends to spend the morning doing campaign events with supporters, journalists and members of the public, before entering the bunker with his closest aides in the afternoon – planning strategy, recording clips for social media and liaising shadow Cabinet colleagues.
“I don’t do very well with road travel,” Sir Keir admitted. He said that during one interview with LBC’s Andrew Marr, he started to feel distinctly unwell and feared catastrophe. Much of his campaigning activity is highly stage-managed – every time he gets on or off the bus, a group of activists who have been standing around for half an hour or more whoop and cheer for the cameras for just 20 seconds or so.