Sir Keir Starmer’s staff posted a picture with the wrong business mogul when thanking Blackstone, the American private equity firm, for its multibillion-pound investment in a new data centre in Northumberland.
Days after mistakenly calling for the return of the Israeli “sausages” rather than “hostages”, Starmer found himself caught up in another gaffe, this time on social media.
The prime minister’s account on LinkedIn posted a photo of himself alongside Larry Fink, the boss of BlackRock, the asset manager, instead of Jon Gray, the president and chief operating officer of Blackstone.
The post was deleted before being republished without a picture
The prime minister wrote: “Blackstone has announced new investment to create one the largest AI data centres in Europe, delivering jobs and wealth creation across the northeast of England.
“The number one mission of