Keir Starmer

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Voters tell Keir Starmer: We don't know what you stand for (Evening Standard)

Sir Keir Starmer is struggling to get his vision across — even among Labour voters — while his ratings are only average for an Opposition leader, and behind ...

Many Labour MPs are growing increasingly impatient for Sir Keir to publish more about his key beliefs, values and policies to inject momentum into their party. Gideon Skinner of Ipsos said: “Neither party leader will be comfortable with their public opinion ratings at the moment. The Ipsos survey for the Standard found that 43 per cent of adults who back Labour hold this view.

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Londoner's Diary: Glenda Jackson: Keir Starmer's voice is his big ... (Evening Standard)

Today's Diary: Glenda Jackson spots a weakness in Starmer / Historian slams mild-mannered approach to repatriation / An operatic evening for the Tories.

But historian Paddy Docherty tells us Hunt, left, should make an “unambiguous call for repatriation” instead of “spiking his own guns at the outset” and waiting for politicians to act. Her fellow Tory MP Lucy Allan wasn’t impressed, simply saying “seriously” at the news. CTOR AND Labour grandee Glenda Jackson has some PR advice for Keir Starmer, saying the Labour leader should hire a voice coach.

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Tories smirk at Keir Starmer's 'charge of the lightweight brigade' jibe (Metro)

Conservative ministers have been caught smirking at the moment they were called the 'charge of the lightweight brigade' by Sir Kier Starmer.

Mr Johnson replied to the remark: ‘It’s exactly when times are tough and when the country faces pressures on the economy and pressures on their budgets, and when we have the biggest war in Europe for 80 years, that is exactly the moment that you’d expect a Government to continue with its work, not to walk away, and to get on with our job and to focus on the things that matter to the people of this country.’ The charge of the lightweight brigade. Attacking Mr Johnson, Sir Keir said: ‘What a pathetic spectacle, the dying act of his career is to parrot that nonsense.

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Euro 2022: Sir Keir Starmer wishes England team well... but no ... (Belfast Telegraph)

Sir Keir Starmer has wished the English team well as they head to the Women's Euro Championships - but neglected to mention the Northern Ireland team.

Sir Keir began his attack on Boris Johnson's leadership with a congratulations to the English women's team. You’re already doing the nation proud and we’ll be cheering you on throughout the tournament!” Sir Keir Starmer has wished the English team well as they head to the Women's Euro Championships - but neglected to mention the Northern Ireland team.

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'Charge of the lightweight brigade': Starmer uses PMQs to mock Tories (The Guardian)

Labour leader says Conservative MPs backing Boris Johnson do not have 'a shred of integrity'

In the middle of a crisis, doesn’t the country deserve better than a Z-list cast of nodding dogs.” But it’s a reminder to all those propping up this prime minister just how serious the situation is,” Starmer said. “The dying act of his political career is to parrot that nonsense.

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Keir Starmer Brands Johnson a 'Pathetic Spectacle' in 'Dying Act of ... (Bloomberg)

Boris Johnson was branded a "pathetic spectacle" by Sir Keir Starmer, before Labour MPs waved and shouted "bye bye" to the Prime Minister.

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Keir Starmer brands Cabinet 'charge of lightweight brigade as Tories ... (Mirror.co.uk)

Boris Johnson boasted about his 'colossal mandate' and vowed to 'keep going' despite Tory MPs telling him to his face to resign at Prime Minister's ...

"It was the same when his ally was on the take from the lobbyists. He added: "As for those who are left, only in office because no-one else is prepared to debase themselves any longer. "Anyone quitting now after defending all that hasn't got a shred of integrity. It was the same when his home secretary was bullying staff. And, in hindsight, I should have realised that he would not change." "They're all sitting there as if this is normal behaviour.

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Keir Starmer claims Boris Johnson left with 'Z-list cast of nodding ... (HeraldScotland)

MINISTERS standing by the Prime Minister have been told to “have some self-respect” and quit as Labour leader Keir Starmer claimed the only way…

“So it's no longer a case about swapping the person at the top. Every day the lines he's forced them to take have been untrue. He added that “we're going to get on with our job”, claiming that “we're helping people up and down the country and we are going to continue to deliver on the mandate I was given”. That is the right thing.” He is now the subject of an independent investigation. He stressed his intention to “get on with our job and to focus on the things that matter to the people of this country”.

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Keir Starmer criticised for Northern Ireland Women's team omission ... (ITV News)

Leader of the Opposition Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised by Northern Irish politicians after he neglected to wish the NI women's team good luck | UTV ...

Ahead of a hotly anticipated PMQs, Sir Keir Starmer took to his feet to first wish the England team well in the European Championships. Politicians have hit out at the Labour leader for omitting to mention the Northern Ireland team during Prime Minister's Questions. Keir Starmer criticised for Northern Ireland Women's team omission during PMQs

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PMQs: Keir Starmer condemns those staying loyal to Boris Johnson ... (The Scotsman)

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Then he was unaware of any serious specific allegation, and now people are being sent out to say he simply forgot that his whip was a sexual predator. "Then, he was unaware of any specific allegation – untrue. And as for those who are left, only in office because no-one else is prepared to debase themselves any longer, the charge of the lightweight brigade.

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Andrew Fisher: “Keir Starmer is too interested in not being Jeremy ... (New Statesman)

The former Labour policy chief on why the Tories could still win.

Labour backed the policy of gender self-identification in 2017 and 2019, but Fisher also sees the need for regulation in certain settings, giving the identification of sex offenders in prison as an example. “The material basis that explained why Corbyn won the leadership in 2015, and Labour advanced in 2017,” said Fisher, “hasn’t gone away. Fisher credits Starmer with one good phrase: “I want Britain to be the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in.” He thinks that line could have encapsulated Labour’s offer on everything from social care and childcare to housing. He thinks the arguments Labour put forth in 2017 would only be stronger today, as inflation and the cost of living rise and strikes threaten to bring parts of Britain to a halt. But the economic ambition of Corbynism may have lit a path to power for Labour. “I think on the economics we were right, and the polling always backed that,” Fisher said. In the two years leading up to the 2017 election, Fisher said, Corbyn offered “a consistent argument: austerity is a political choice, not an economic necessity. “The thing that should be worrying Starmer,” Fisher told me, “is a Lynton Crosby phrase: ‘You can’t fatten the pig on market day. It is difficult to do that for today’s Labour Party. Its economic agenda is unclear: is it on the left or right? “You’re wiping the slate clean, but what are you writing on it?” Fisher asked in response when we spoke. But Major was, Fisher notes, “a safe pair of hands after people had got annoyed with the bombastic Thatcher”; a moderate successor to Johnson could seek to sell themselves in the same way. It is difficult to find much evidence, in either the data or in real life, that many voters are excited by Starmer’s leadership of Labour. I hated the Tories before I liked Labour,” he told me over a light pub lunch on the Thames on 30 June.

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