CLA President Victoria Vyvyan hit out at Starmer’s reliance on BBC Verify for support on the farm tax:
“The Prime Minister is reduced to claiming that his numbers are backed up by BBC Verify, two blokes with a cup of tea and a calculator. This Prime Minister has got a Treasury to rely on. He doesn’t need BBC Verify to back him up. That is not a Treasury in which I have the greatest confidence, frankly, if it needs that support.”
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”