next prime minister, this was a chance to hear a bit more from the labour leader. as you said, very early on in the programme he was asked about his position on strikes. that has been a source of tension within the labour party within recent weeks is whether or not labour should be standing full square behind strikers joining picket lines and saying, this is right, we back striking workers. on theissue right, we back striking workers. on the issue on whether or not to join picket lines, sir keirjoined the party stands that they don t do that, but he defended it by saying the leader of the opposition has a different role to the leader of trade unions, it is up to the leader of opposition to try to get the labour party into government. that, i think, is also the way that we should look at everything we have heard in the last 45 minutes. if you think about where sir keir starmer is trying to position the party, so we know for example on things like the cost of living, single big
conservative manifesto launch. last night saw four party leaders grilled by a challenging question time audience on bbc one. rishi sunak was asked about the investigation into alleged bets made by two tory candidates as well as the party s director of campaigning and one of his own close protection officers. the prime minister said he was incredibly angry and that anyone with connections to him or the conservative party found to have broken gambling rules should face the full force of the law. the labour leader sir keir starmer was pushed on his previous support for former leaderjeremy corbyn, who he said would have made a better prime minister than borisjohnson. sir ed davey of the liberal democrats and the snp sjohn swinney were also grilled on the nhs, trust and past promises. but it was the prime minister who arguably faced the most challenging questions of the evening on the alleged betting scandal. when asked why those under investigation hadn t been suspended fro
Much of Westminster sniggered earlier this month when Rishi Sunak branded Keir Starmer “Captain Hindsight.” But the meme-ready moniker gives away more than a little about the U.K. prime minister’s
Much of Westminster sniggered earlier this month when Rishi Sunak branded Keir Starmer “Captain Hindsight.” But the meme-ready moniker gives away more than a little about the U.K. prime minister’s
Dredging up Sunaks decisions to put off school repairs? Twenty-20 hindsight. Seizing on a terrorism suspects escape to raise questions about prison funding? An attempt to score cheap points. “This is exactly the kind of political opportunism that weve come to expect from Captain Hindsight over here,” Sunak shot at Starmer in the House of Commons this month.