'Sir Keir Starmer has shown his true colours and he is ruthless,' claims Mark Dolan

'Sir Keir Starmer has shown his true colours and he is ruthless,' claims Mark Dolan
'Ruthless' Keir Starmer BLASTED for 26 U-TURNS since becoming Labour leader
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Mark Longhurst

By Mark Longhurst


Published: 09/02/2024

- 22:38

The PM landed himself in hot water at this weeks House Of Commons

What a week. The race for No10 is a bit like the Premier League. Everyone is dropping points and no one wants to win it.

Rishi Sunak gets himself in hot water with a crushingly insensitive £1,000 bet with Piers Morgan over flights to Rwanda and an ill-advised trans jibe in the Commons.


Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer performs another U-turn so screeching it would have Lewis Hamilton blushing.

Let's start with Rishi Sunak, the 21st century answer to John Major who made a major boob this week. Well, that might have been the wrong choice of words.

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Mark Dolan shared his view on the recent House Of Commons drama

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In the House of Commons, Rishi Sunak said: "It's a bit rich, Mr. Speaker, to hear about promises from someone who's broken every single promise he was elected on.

"I mean, I think I counted almost 30 in the last year. Pensions, public sector pay, tuition fees, childcare, second referendums, defining a woman. Although in fairness that was only 99 per cent of a U-turn."

Awkward timing from the PM. But take a look at the reaction of his opposite number, Sir Keir Starmer, salivating at the political opportunity just handed to him on a silver platter. Starmer looked like a Victorian woman who had heard rude language. For the first time ever, he needed smelling salt. There he is, indulging in some of his finest pearl-clutching.

Now he thinks he's landed a win there, but I'm not so sure. This was an improvised moment, unscripted, and I think he showed his true colours. This famously opportunist figure, who I think is just as shallow as Boris Johnson, stayed in Jeremy Corbyn's toxic cabinet for many years and campaigned for him to be Prime Minister. And now he uses Sunak's jibe to weaponize the tragic murder of Brianna Ghey. So why is this on him?

Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer criticised the PM for his jibe

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Because he's the one who brought her into this. He name-checked her in the House of Commons. He dragged this poor girl into the political arena.

ITV's Robert Peston, who's hardly Labour's greatest critic, recently described Sir Keir Starmer as surprisingly ruthless, and more ruthless than Tony Blair. Well, I think we saw that in that clip on Wednesday when Sir Keir invoked the memory of a murdered teenager simply to embarrass the PM and score points.

Now Sunak was a prize numpty for his poor timing and lack of judgment, but Starmer's strange assertion that 99 per cent of women don't have a penis, which means that thousands of people in Britain with penises are women, is still a problem for him politically.

Sunak is entitled to point out that Starmer has no grasp of basic human biology and therefore risks women's hard-won sex-based rights should he achieve power. Not for the first time, Sir Keir seeks to come across as a saintly figure more pious than your local vicar and taking a knee for the latest woke cause. But bringing up a young girl's death in the House of Commons debate doesn't get more ungodly.

Meanwhile, not for the first time, the Labour leader is reversing. Listen out for the beeps and the sound of screeching rubber as the leader of the opposition changes his mind once again on a major policy, his 26th U-turn since he became Labour leader.

Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak is the current PM

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A few notable examples being his campaign to reverse Brexit with a second referendum, scrapping tuition fees and Universal Credit, a tax on the top 5 per cent of earners, a cap on bankers' bonuses, a re-nationalization program and universal childcare up to the end of primary school.

All scrapped under Starmer. And this week, after months of denials, £28billion a year to save the planet has bitten the dust, probably thanks to Starmer's rather sensible Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves.

Do you know, I might even cut Starmer a bit of slack? It takes a big man to change his mind, and with Labour promising to get sign off from the Office for Budget Responsibility for their spending plans, it suggests to me that they're serious about Government and by letting the bankers have their bonuses, they're serious about economic growth and prosperity.

The Tories have U-turned on who their leader is a few times in the last few years, so Starmer's entitled to shift positions. As he readies for power, though voters are entitled to wonder what he will actually do if he gets into No10. I'm not sure even he knows.

Ultimately, if this week in politics was a football match I would call it a nil-nil draw. But if you look at where they are in the league table, Labour doesn't need the points.

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