Daily London
Starmer visited Welland Academy in Peterborough earlier this week to promote a new free school lunches program.
While there, he sat in on a classroom’s reading time and spoke with a young girl finishing her book.
“I’m looking at page six – seven,” the girl said with a grin.
“Oh, six – seven!” Starmer replied, before performing a juggling hand gesture associated with the viral meme that nobody old enough to drive seems capable of understanding.
The class promptly broke out to join the brief moment of activity.
In a video Starmer uploaded to his Instagram, he then apologised with a smile to a teacher who informed him the 6-7 dance had been banned at the school.
“I think I just got myself put in detention…” Starmer wrote in the caption.
The 6-7 meme, which can be as simple as saying “6-7” in any context whatsoever, has been largely regarded as a generation “in” gesture.
Attempts to understand any deeper meaning are likely not only to be frustrated, but per se indicate the seeker of answers is too old to be grappling with youth culture.
