Starmer has gone to Cornwall today with Rayner to visit one of the King-backed housing developments there. A photoshoot – then back to Downing Street for Lunar New Year…
Co-conspirators won’t be surprised that airborne Keir’s preferred mode of transport for the measly 200-odd mile trip was a… private jet. Records show that Starmer’s flight over there on one of RAF 32 Squadron’s Dassault Falcon 900LX executive jets took only 41 minutes. The majority of that will have been spent reaching cruising altitude and dropping from it. Think of the climate…
Guido is old enough to remember Starmer saying Sunak “doesn’t get” what the public thinks because “the view on the ground is very different to that from his private jet.” Reeves made vaunted claims about the Tories’ “private jet habit” and vowed to “save millions of pounds for taxpayers” by preventing ministers from flying on RAF planes. Meanwhile Labour ministers spent £2 million on jets in their first three months in office alone. Something something glass houses…
UPDATE: A Tory source tells Guido: “More staggering hypocrisy from Two Tier Keir. He was all too happy to point the finger in opposition, but now it’s clear it’s one rule for Labour, one for everyone else.”
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”
