Thread by @mikegalsworthy

I like @Keir_Starmer, but this is cringe.

He’s v good at questioning (PMQs) but bad at answers (interviews).

A lot of this should be thoroughly pre-prepped stuff that he can knock out of the park.

Here’s how he should have answered, imo... [Thread]

“Is it time for a national lockdown?”

- No. But this govt have a very tight time window to sort out the testing.

“Is £10K fine for breaking self isolation too draconian?”

- Yes. Firstly there’s a risk that it scares people off getting a test. Who can afford £10K? Secondly...

...are you really going to let Cummings off the hook for breaking self-isolation, then drag the public through the courts in a pandemic over huge fines they can’t pay, for doing the same?

“Captain Hindsight”

- The PM needs a big dose of hindsight. Then perhaps he won’t keep...

... making the same mistakes over and over.

Boris Johnson has no hindsight, no foresight and is stumbling blind from week to week.

He is so scared of the near past that he’s not even learning lessons from it. He’s in denial.

— Anyway. You get the picture. Qs about lockdown, whether govt measures go far enough, what you’d do, unis, captain hindsight, etc *all* are predictable.

Keir & team need a crib sheet of punchy, rehearsed answers for these, otherwise he’ll just peddle evasive fluff.