While the Tory civil war in Britain is in full swing, Keir Starmer is on tour in Germany.
With the tour, the Labour leader has been attempting to bolster his statesman credentials, including today’s dress-down visit to the Berlin Wall.
Sir Keir posed in front of the landmark’s East Side Gallery part while sporting a black polo shirt.
The structure was built in 1961 by the communist government to divide East and West Berlin.
After the two sides of the city were linked the previous year, the majority of the wall was destroyed in 1990.
The Dmitri Vrubel painting My God, Help Me To Survive This Deadly Love, which shows the former East German leader Erich Honecker and the Soviet Union’s then-president Leonid Brezhnev sharing a socialist fraternal kiss, is located in the gallery area of the wall Sir Keir saw.
Sir Keir’s travel allows him to escape the unrest in the UK as the Tories narrow the field of candidates to succeed Boris Johnson.
Despite appearing doomed to fail, a vote of confidence in the government is scheduled to take place on Monday.
Labour has been calling for an early general election.
In their discussion, Sir Keir and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are scheduled to talk about Brexit and the economic success of both the UK and Germany.
Sir Keir met Wolfgang Schmidt, the federal minister for special affairs, head of the chancellery, and commissioner for the Federal Intelligence Service, yesterday to kick off his two-day visit to Berlin.
David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, is traveling with him.
They also went to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and took a tour of the Holocaust memorial with a guide.