Tory leadership candidates are sending in their responses to Starmer’s speech. Suffice to say, they aren’t exactly complimentary…
Robert Jenrick didn’t mince his words:
“This was the speech of a Prime Minister at the end of his five-year term, not three months in. Sir Keir is already a busted flush – a Mr Grey, with a dour plan for the UK. Behind all the rhetoric there was no substance. How can Starmer have no plan to grow the economy, reform the NHS or control and reduce immigration after 14 years? It appears he is too distracted with sleaze, infighting and chaos in Downing Street.”
Kemi Badenoch jabbed at donation-gate (and now the new sausage-gate):
“Keir Starmer’s first Labour Party conference speech as Prime Minister will be mostly remembered for him calling for the return of the sausages. But he should be pleased that the commentary will focus on this, because the rest of the speech was a platitudinous word soup read out by an emperor naked without his free clothes.”
James Cleverly said:
“The Labour Party has had years to prepare for government; Keir Starmer’s speech shows those years were wasted. He talked about the mandate he won but he doesn’t have a mandate to strip millions of pensioners of their winter fuel payments, hike up taxes for hard working families, and introduce nanny-state policies that will destroy local communities and businesses. Keir Starmer won’t match our commitment to defence spending; he doesn’t have a plan to safeguard our borders; and his latest sleaze row has exposed him as a hypocrite. The only thing that hard working people can be sure of is that this Labour government will take their money so they can give it to their Union paymasters.”
Tom Tugendhat said:
“Instead of apologising for plunging millions of pensioners into poverty this winter and releasing dangerous criminals back onto our streets, all we saw today was arrogance and gloating. Keir Starmer continues to be dishonest about the choice he has made: to put his union paymasters before the service of the British people.
This isn’t the leadership we need, this is a Labour government that only serves the unions and is taking the public for fools. It’s time to start acting like a Party in government. Not opposition.”
Gearing up for the leadership showdown at Tory conference next week…
Lady Victoria Sponger is swanning around in luxury dresses again, this time a £1,105 designer dress from her new favourite brand Edeline Lee. The ongoing Labour donations scandal hasn’t stopped her from dressing to impress…
Lady in red…
Another protester interrupts a Labour conference speech. They must have wanted Starmer’s speech to finally come to an end as well…
Errr…
Starmer is making his keynote speech at Labour conference where he’s expected to try and lighten the doom-and-gloom mood, promising that there is “light at the end of this tunnel”. Just as Savanta drops a poll showing his popularity ratings have plummeted by 21 points since the election, and by 28 points among those that voted Labour in July…
Change begins. Watch my conference speech here. https://t.co/W17KP6QDwV
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) September 24, 2024
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A familiar face was spotted on the train from Liverpool today. A co-conspirator snapped Labour’s very own Lord Mandelson, comfortably perched in a first-class seat, rolling into Euston at 1 p.m. He clearly wasn’t interested in sticking around for Starmer’s 2 p.m. speech with the rest of the party faithful…
The co-conspirator shared another rather amusing tale from a taxi driver who picked up other conference attendees last night:
“I had four of them and it was an eight pound fare. They asked for a a receipt for £2 each so they could claim it on expenses. I wrote out one receipt, tore it into four pieces and gave them one each.”
Who can blame the dark lord for shooting off early…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”
