At one level, @Keir_Starmer’s words this morning on #Marr about Brexit were perhaps to be expected.
It’s politics, and he was politicking. He knows that such words have a shelf life of a few days at most….
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@Keir_Starmer And there was a realism there: the deal has been done, and the EU is unlikely to undo it.
However, what he said also depressed me rather…
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@Keir_Starmer Perhaps naïvely, I had hoped that @Keir_Starmer might stand above the political fray, just a little, and speak truth, fully, constantly and plainly.
And yet it seems not.
It’s clear, to me at least, that Starmer plays politics like the rest of them.
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@pritipatel@TomTugendhat The only reason Patel may have some support across parts of the Tory bedrock vote, despite her incompetence and bullying, is that her unremitting xenophobia appeals to part of that increasingly UKIPified constituency.