The Tory challenge: to show voters that Keir Starmer is running a camouflage campaign
The evidence is all there - nothing the Labour leader says is authentic
THERE is a brilliant and brutal little film doing the rounds on Twitter highlighting some of the multiple U-turns performed by Keir Starmer since his election as Labour leader.
No fewer than seven 180 degree about turns are crammed into the two minute clip. Each example involves Starmer moving away from a left-wing stance he took or promise he made to a more right-wing position.
Hence, he spoke of the need to campaign for continued freedom of movement from the EU but now says blocking free movement is a red line for him; he promised to include the nationalisation of utilities in the next Labour manifesto but now says he won’t do that; he called Jeremy Corbyn a friend but now says he never was; he promised not to have anything to do with The Sun newspaper but now says he would write articles for it; he opposed the removal of Shamima Begum’s citizenship but now says a court was right to block its return; he supported a picket line of striking workers but has now banned Labour frontbenchers from doing that; he approvingly cited Extinction Rebellion’s gridlocking of London but now says such direct action by environmentalists is wrong.
Seeing so many abandoned positions crammed into such a short sequence is pretty devastating, underlining the slipperiness of the opposition leader. Already Tory MPs have started punting it on their own social media accounts.
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