As the sleaze row spills into another day, Starmer was once again pressed this afternoon on why it was acceptable for him to coin it with his second job as a legal adviser for several years, only to now insist they’re inappropriate:

“I think there are moments when we all need to reflect and move forward. And I am accepting that this is one such moment. This corruption, this scandal, has been live now for the best part of two weeks, and I think that moving forward, we need to change rules… this is intended to say this is a moment. There come moments when you have to strengthen and improve rules… it looks as though we have already succeeded, in part, in that change of the rules. And that’s a good thing.”

Meaningless drivel – there’s a reason he’s not been doing media…