Sir Keir Starmer’s advisers have very short memories. At PMQs, the Labour leader mocked Liz Truss for visiting America to ‘flog a new book in search of fame and wealth’. He jeered at her suggestion that ‘the deep state’ had sabotaged her career, and he put it to Rishi Sunak that the Tories have become ‘the political wing of the Flat Earth Society.’

Sir Keir forgets that his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, is far more embarrassing than Liz Truss whose premiership was over in less time than it takes to eat a toffee apple. Corbyn was Labour leader for four years and Sir Keir was one of his favoured lieutenants. Rishi couldn’t believe his luck. Here was an opportunity to remind the world of Corbyn’s worst offence.

‘He called Hamas our friends,’ said Rishi. And he spat out a personal insult at Sir Keir. ‘Spineless hopeless and utterly shameless.’ His rage was palpable.

Sir Keir wasn’t expecting this level of passion and he needed to adjust his questions to the more sombre mood of the debate. Instead he maintained his joshing, bantering style about Truss.

‘She continued on her American odyssey,’ he laughed, ‘her journey into the Wild West of her mind.’ Then he brought up Tommy Robinson, ‘a right-wing thug’, and he asked if Nigel Farage would be welcomed back into the Tory fold.

Rishi shifted tack and spoke about the historic readiness of the Conservative party to promote talent from every strand of society. ‘The first Jewish prime minister’, he boasted. ‘The first female prime minister. The first Muslim home secretary. The first British Asian prime minister.’ He seemed to suggest that the Tories invented woke activism.

Sir Keir called on Rishi to bar Liz Truss from the official list of Tory candidates. This, of course, is exactly the punishment meted out by Sir Keir to Corbyn who is unlikely ever to stand in the Labour interest again.

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28.02.2024

Sir Keir Starmer’s advisers have very short memories. At PMQs, the Labour leader mocked Liz Truss for visiting America to ‘flog a new book in search of fame and wealth’. He jeered at her suggestion that ‘the deep state’ had sabotaged her career, and he put it to Rishi Sunak that the Tories have become ‘the political wing of the Flat Earth Society.’

Sir Keir forgets that his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, is far more embarrassing than Liz Truss whose premiership........

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