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Sir Keir Starmer left an audience in stitches after donning a pair of flier sunglasses in a nod to Emmanuel Macron’s recent style.
The Prime Minister was on the Political Party Live when he was interviewed live, and handed a pair of the now-famous shades.
He greeted the audience, saying: ‘Bonjour.’
Starmer later tagged Macron in a post and captioned it with a Top Gun quote: ‘Talk over with me, Goose.’
The PM’s nod to the French President’s recent aviator glasses style was a short lived thing, nevertheless – Starmer said he needs his normal glasses to see day-to-day proceedings within the Commons.
France’s president rocked as much as the World Economic Forum in Switzerland wearing a pair of Top Gun-style aviator sunglasses last week and went viral.
‘Please pardon the unsightly appearance of my eye. It’s, after all, something completely harmless,’ he said on the time.
‘Simply see an unintentional reference to the ‘Eye of the Tiger’ … For many who catch the reference, it is an indication of determination,’ he joked.
For many who didn’t catch the reference, that’s the theme song to the 1982 movie Rocky III, starring Sylvester Stallone.
The fashionable accessory – paired together with his small quiff and sideburns – lent an unintended air of cool to his dire warning that we’re seeing ‘a shift towards a world without rules’.
Sales of the sunglasses – made and acquired at Maison Henry Jullien – have shot up since Macron wore them. A lot so, the web site to purchase them crashed.
Macron first bought a pair of the Pacific S 01 Double Gold sunglasses, value €659, for the G20 summit in 2024.
Stefano Fulchir, the president of iVision Tech who owns Henry Julien, told The Guardian: ‘My first response could be summed up in three letters: wow! It has not been a typical day. I feel very honoured that the president is wearing our glasses.
‘I said I can be glad to send him a pair but they said no. He didn’t accept them as a present, but desired to purchase them personally.’
He was hiding a burst blood vessel in his right eye, something which he described as ‘totally benign’.
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