Starmer has buckled under pressure and responded to the viral petition demanding a general election, now with over 2 million signatures and counting. Appearing on ITV this morning, he explained that despite not being “surprised” by the petition, it isn’t going to shift the dial:
“I remind myself that very many people didn’t vote Labour at the last election. I’m not surprised that many of them want re-run. That isn’t how our system works. There will be plenty of people who didn’t want us in in the first place, so look, what I focus on is the decisions that I have to make every day.”
If you’re explaining, you’re losing…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”