The “ordinary working-class woman” Keir Starmer referenced in his conference speech as having been crucial to shifting his views on immigration says she “doesn’t believe a word” that comes out of the Prime Minister’s mouth. And she’ll never vote for Labour again…
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Joyce Todd said:
“I don’t believe a word [Starmer] says, I’m sorry. I was brought up Labour… My parents were Labour. But I will never vote for them again.”
“She, an ordinary working-class woman from Oldham, a Labour voter, felt that she had to prove to a Labour politician that she wasn’t racist before she could even bring up the issues in her community. I carried that with me through all the bad years […] we are a party that patronised working people and that is why we changed the party.”
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”