Questions over Starmer’s in-person meeting with vocal coach Leonie Mellinger refuse to go away. Downing Street today chose to stay silent on matters from Starmer’s time in Opposition—despite no hesitation when it came to commenting on his 2022 ‘work from home’ video filmed in Lord Alli’s penthouse. Meanwhile, the media interest is picking up…
Sky News has reported on the Tories accusing Starmer of a lockdown breach, the Evening Standard, the Independent, The Sun and other papers have picked up on the questions Richard Holden posed that Starmer must answer. Broadcasters such as GB News are highlighting the hypocrisy of ‘Mr. Rules’, who lectured Boris on lockdown breaches and repeatedly parroted the sanctimonious line that “lawmakers should not be lawbreakers.” Meanwhile, TalkTV’s Mike Graham mocked Starmer over the absurdity, not just hypocrisy of it all—“of all the people to have a secret meeting with, a voice coach on Christmas Eve…What’s wrong with him?” This headache for Starmer isn’t looking to go away anytime soon…
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…”