Labour’s Keir Starmer OVERTAKES Boris Johnson to become the nation’s favourite to be prime minister as Downing Street is rocked by coronavirus and Tory donor ‘cash-for-access’ row Sir Keir is now on 37 per cent, with Mr Johnson on 35 per cent, Opinium found Won plaudits for swift action on alleged anti-Semitism by sacking Corbynite … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer has appointed banker-turned child poverty activist Kate Green MP as Labour’s new Shadow Education Secretary today. The Stretford and Urmston MP replaces Rebecca Long Bailey, who was sacked from the frontbench for allegedly peddling an ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theory’. Sir Keir said: ‘I’m delighted to appoint Kate Green as shadow education secretary. ‘Kate has … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer today faces an insurrection from left-wing MPs who have warned him that he will ‘regret’ sacking Rebecca Long Bailey for sharing an article that contained an ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theory’ blaming Israel for George Floyd’s racist murder. The new Labour leader is expected to meet with at least 12 members of the hard-Left Socialist … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer has gone to war with allies of Jeremy Corbyn after sacking his former leadership rival Rebecca Long Bailey for sharing an article that contained an ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theory’. The new Labour leader is expected to meet with over 12 members of the hard-Left Socialist Campaign Group on the frontbench today to repair relations, after … Read more
Keir Starmer sacked his hard-Left former leadership rival Rebecca Long-Bailey today after she praised an interview in which actress Maxine Peake peddled an ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theory’. The shadow education secretary posted a link to an interview in which Peake – one of her constituents – claimed that US police learned ‘neck-kneeling’ restrain techniques used on George … Read more
Starmer SACKS Rebecca Long-Bailey after she tweets praise for interview with left-wing actress including ‘antisemitic conspiracy theory’ By James Tapsfield, Mailonline Political Editor Published: 15:07 BST, 25 June 2020 | Updated: 15:11 BST, 25 June 2020 Keir Starmer today effectively sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey after she tweeted support for an interview with actress Maxine Peake. A … Read more
Boris Johnson has not looked as cheerful for a long time as he did in the Commons yesterday. His is a sunny nature and he does not like to be cast in the part of Charles Dickens’s Thomas Gradgrind — a sober man obsessed with numbers. That is a role he cedes happily to Sir … Read more
Labour Left blasts Sir Keir Starmer for taking advice from ‘hated’ former Prime Minister Tony Blair Labour’s hard-Left last night branded Sir Kier Starmer ‘Continuity Blair’ MPs who dislike former PM Tony Blair after Starmer consulted with predecessor Sources say they spoke ‘more than once’ but refused to say what talked about By Brendan Carlin … Read more
Who are Black Lives Matter? Where did they come from and what, exactly, do they believe in? These may seem silly questions. But in a month when Premier League footballers have joined Sir Keir Starmer and other British celebrities in ‘taking the knee’ to express their ‘collective support for the Black Lives Matter movement’, it … Read more
There’s an apt and vivid phrase which Boris Johnson uses in private to describe a mood that has engulfed much of the country. He says we must beware of ‘morbid funk’. He appears to mean there is a risk of the nation being so obsessed with Covid-19, and so fearful of its consequences, that we’ll avoid … Read more