Keir Heading for Absolute Extinction
This morning the ONS 2022 baby names data was published. Guido has been enjoying the annual tradition of seeing whether any politicians have inspired parents so much as to influence their naming decisions. The main bad news comes for Sir Keir, whose is now truly hanging off the precipice of extinction. In 2019, there were 15 baby Keirs. In 2020 that fell to nine. In 2021, a year into his leadership of The Labour Party it was six. In 2022 – with a few relaunches to his name – only three children were named Keir. That’s at 4,789th place and well below his moniker among left-wing critics, Keith, which stands at 2,755th…
There were a respectable 28 new Borises, only 11 below the ex-PM’s 2019 level of 39. Rishi sits at 862nd place with 36 children – down from his dishy high of 41 the year before. Guido notes that, of party leaders’ names in the last five years, Elizabeths are blowing the competition out of the water with a whopping 795 new kids – 60th in Britain (Jeremy is in 727th place). In Liz we Truss?
