French President Macron and Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis are on Cyprus to visit troops. The Brits have two bases on Cyprus, Starmer has spent the morning in a community centre…
No10 was asked by journalists at the daily briefing about the PM’s absence:
“The Prime Minister has set out our unwavering support for Cyprus and its security… We are demonstrating that in action, through the additional defensive capability we’ve deployed to Cyprus…”
The one time it would actually be worth hopping on the government private jet…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”