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From big teeth, sticky out ears, and double chins, The Evening Standard’s Editorial Cartoonist has found many ways to poke fun at some of the most powerful people in the country in the lead up to the 2024 General Election. Using satire and some carefully positioned ink splotches, Christian Adams makes headlines, and front pages, as the Evening Standard throws its backing behind Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party one day before polling begins.

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00:00Big nose, massive eyebrows, and his, again, very perfect sort of hair, like that, big
00:09Mr. Potato Head ears. There we go. Richie.
00:17I mean, the Tory party, how many more ways can I think of to draw somebody in a hole,
00:23or somebody in trouble, with the poles going terribly. It's been a gift of different images
00:31of somebody doing very, very badly. You know, I wasn't judging, it's just they did it to
00:36themselves, so I just drew what they did wrong.
00:40Big chin, and then the famous hair, here we go, which is perfectly, perfectly combed.
00:50When a new person comes on the scene, if they're sort of quite good looking, or unremarkable,
00:56they find it very difficult to begin with. Starmer is a very unremarkable face. Having
01:01said that, after a while you get to realise he's a little bit porky, he's got a big chin,
01:06he's got very small eyes, his hair is perfectly quaffed there, so you get to know these sort
01:12of things. So he's fine to do now, isn't he? I've had practice for a couple of years on him.
01:20Nigel Farage, again, what a face, the teeth, the frog eyes and everything, he's great fun to do,
01:30really good fun to do. The other thing about Farage is he loves cartoons of himself, so he
01:36always says, can I have that cartoon, which not every politician does, he loves it. In the old
01:41days, things like Budget Day, all newspapers, all papers would have a cartoon of the Chancellor
01:47on the cover, now they don't, they have photographs, I don't know why, it's the
01:51editor's decision, and if the editor wants my cartoons on the front page, absolutely, it's
01:58great. You know, it's a great showcase for me, especially The Standard, which is sort of
02:04racked up on the streets of London, where everyone can see them, rather than in a newsagent.
02:08It's brilliant, yeah, it's great.
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