Here’s a Getty image that looks very like the one used on the card: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/labour-party-leader-sir-keir-starmer-and-his-wife-victoria-news-photo/1727756557
Oh look, here’s a similar photo on this Sky story: https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-keir-starmers-wife-lady-victoria-starmer-12981688
Here’s another taken from a lower perspective, on this independent story
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ap-uk-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-liverpool-england-b2427236.html
But no, muh pixels
Edit - is he actually shorter than her? She’s in heels here: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/labour-party-leader-sir-keir-starmer-celebrates-with-his-news-photo/1728007654
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/sir-keir-starmer-leader-of-the-labour-party-and-his-wife-news-photo/1727974934
So I wonder if the foreshortening is actually in the image that makes her look taller.
I don’t have time to trawl the internet for a free photo of the photographers at the 2023 conference, but here’s what the pack looked like at the 2018 conference: https://www.alamy.com/photographers-and-tv-crew-in-front-of-the-main-stage-at-the-labour-party-annual-conference-2018-liverpool-image221752455.html
Photographers standing right next to each other taking different perspectives at the same time is exactly what happens at these events.
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Sorry, but you’re doing the pretzel with your photoshop conspiracy bollocks.
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Here’s a Getty image that looks very like the one used on the card:
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/labour-party-leader-sir-keir-starmer-and-his-wife-victoria-news-photo/1727756557
Oh look, here’s a similar photo on this Sky story:
https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-keir-starmers-wife-lady-victoria-starmer-12981688
Here’s another taken from a lower perspective, on this independent story
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ap-uk-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-liverpool-england-b2427236.html
But no, muh pixels
Edit - is he actually shorter than her? She’s in heels here:
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/labour-party-leader-sir-keir-starmer-celebrates-with-his-news-photo/1728007654
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/sir-keir-starmer-leader-of-the-labour-party-and-his-wife-news-photo/1727974934
So I wonder if the foreshortening is actually in the image that makes her look taller.
I don’t have time to trawl the internet for a free photo of the photographers at the 2023 conference, but here’s what the pack looked like at the 2018 conference:
https://www.alamy.com/photographers-and-tv-crew-in-front-of-the-main-stage-at-the-labour-party-annual-conference-2018-liverpool-image221752455.html
Photographers standing right next to each other taking different perspectives at the same time is exactly what happens at these events.