Kemi was in good form at the crease this afternoon at PMQs, stinging Starmer with the bombshell line: he is “stuffing Government with hypocrites and paedophile apologists”. A point that rings true given Labour’s long history with ‘paedo adjacent’ figures…
It’s a far cry from the general meltdown by establishment insiders when Boris Johnson suggested that Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was DPP – a point not first made by him but by many others in the past. Could the general focus on Labour’s “peado problem” return to this question?
Johnson said in 2022: “I’m not talking about the leader of the opposition’s personal record when he was DPP. I was making a point about his responsibility for the organisation as a whole.” Going back up the agenda…
Speaking about Morgan McSweeney’s resignation, skills minister Jacqui Smith told Times Radio:
“It’s clearly not ideal but I do understand why Morgan, as he explained, decided to resign at this point. But the important thing as you say is how we both tackle what this Epstein and Mandelson scandal has identified and also how we make sure, as the prime minister is absolutely determined to, that we continue the change that the country needs and that’s what I’m focusing on this morning.”