Veterans' Minister Johnny Mercer has said the Labour leader "changed policy live on air" over his party’s policy on immigration.
Mercer also accused Sir Keir Starmer of wanting to "appease his mates" over the ECHR whilst saying that the Conservatives would do "whatever it takes" to secure the country’s borders.
Speaking on GB News he said: “If you want to see who should be the next Prime Minister it is so clear, it's night and day. Starmer, if you listen to what he actually says, he says nothing at all. He says he's sorry, he has platitudes, he has no idea what he's actually going to do and that is critical.
“This is not a game, this is serious stuff about being Prime Minister and you can berate Sunak for having ideas, that's fine, but at least he's got a plan and we need to stick to the plan and get through difficult times.
“I don't think it keeps failing because these things are not black and white. So if you actually look at small boat crossings, for example, to other countries they are going up and up. And they’ve actually gone down [to the UK] by a third this year. So it's okay coming out with the platitude, ‘we're going to smash the criminal gangs’ - what does that actually mean? It means nothing, it's childish stuff.
“[Sunak’s] come up with clear plans, returns and things like that, are having an effect. Politics are difficult. Being in government is difficult. Being part of a broad church is difficult.
“If you've been in government for 14 years, not everything's going to go perfectly. But you've got a really clear choice here between someone who clearly has a plan, who's been in this job and has a record of things like reducing illegal migration, like he has this year, versus someone who literally wants to go into a returns agreement.
“If you believe in things like controlling migration, if you don't want to pay more tax, you have one clear option to focus on, because it's what you believe in.
“And the thing is with Starmer, the reason he's all over the place, is because this guy believes in nothing. He’s a perfectly nice bloke, right? He believes in absolutely nothing at all. And you can see that, the way he changed policy live on air. ‘We now believe in returning people to a third country on immigration.’ He’s never said that before. He’s just making it up on the hoof, these people cannot be Prime Minister. It's a serious issue.
“I think that it's entirely the right thing to give parents a choice. I think actually, what [VAT on private school fees] is going to do if you speak to ordinary people in Plymouth who save up for that, who don't go on holiday, who don't eat out, so their kids going to go to private school, they're the ones who are going to be hit.
“The super rich will continue to go to private school. So it's ideological. It's like that really weird answer, would you pay for your relatives to get treatment if they need it and you have the money? And the answer is no from Keir Starmer.
“This is mad, right? This is mad stuff. Politics is about pragmatism, delivering for people, and it's not about just dying in a ditch over ideological matters.
“It's weird and you know, if you start thinking down that line, I think, where does it stop? Where does it stop, this ideological pursuit of socialism? I think it's mad.
“You've got a very clear choice [on the ECHR]. [Sunak] said, ‘I will do whatever it takes, whatever it takes, to secure these borders.’
“Starmer is more interested in appeasing his mates in the ECHR. So when you go to an election, which is about choice, you can do one or the other. And it's very clear in my view what we should be doing.
“I love elections because you force the choice between people who just peddle rubbish and people are actually have a plan and are used to dealing with the consequences of government."
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