Speaking to Times Radio, Harriet Harman justified banker Ian Corfield’s appointment as director in the Treasury after giving £20,000 to Labour politicians:
“He’s an extremely wealthy individual and I think that in the scale of donations that probably seems like a small amount of money for him but for everybody else that seems like a lot of money.”
The day after Starmer U-turned and refused to blame Trump for the war Rachel Reeves told the Mirror:
“Obviously no sensible person is a supporter of the Iranian regime, but to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it, I do think that is a folly and it is one that is affecting families here in the UK but also families in the US and around the world.”