In an act of comedic timing lawyers acting for Liz Truss have instructed Keir Starmer to cease and desist in his repeated claims that she “crashed the economy“. Labour’s favourite line during the election…
The letter claims that due to the fact that there was no recorded fall in economic output or commensurate rise in unemployment from the mini-budget, it is inaccurate to describe events as a “crash.” They cite a report from economist Andrew Lilico to back up the refutation…
“Of particular concern are the false and defamatory public statements you made about our client in the lead-up to the UK general election from late May 2024, at a time when you knew or ought to have known that those statements were false and the statements were likely to materially impact public opinion of our client whilst she was standing as the parliamentary candidate for the Conservative Party in South West Norfolk… The statements are defamatory and are causing continuing damage to our client’s reputation. Accordingly, our client requests that you immediately cease and desist from repeating the defamatory statements at any point, from causing them to be repeated or from otherwise re-publishing the defamatory statements or any part of them.”
Starmer and Reeves have their own bond crisis to worry about now. Something something glass houses, that said, a legal letter is an unusual tool…
Guido has all six pages of the letter. Read them below:
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”