Public already done with Starmer - Angus Robertson

Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech during the Labour Party conference in Liverpool last month. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech during the Labour Party conference in Liverpool last month. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech during the Labour Party conference in Liverpool last month. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Following the raft of freebies and questionable donations, six in ten people in the UK (59 per cent) already describe the Labour government as at least fairly “sleazy” according to YouGov.

It’s a startlingly bad start for a UK Government of any stripe.
The person supposed to have managed the steady ascension and smooth transition into government was Sue Gray. Getting Gray on board was considered a real boon for Labour and a vote of confidence by a former senior civil servant. Her resignation is a total condemnation of their first few weeks of government.

Gray’s reward? The new challenge of being an “envoy” for the nations and regions, potentially along with a peerage to boot. It’s anyone’s guess why Starmer thinks it is a good idea to clad in ermine someone who has failed at their job and task them with trotting around the UK bestowing the government’s wishes upon its “dependencies”.

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One would think they would make sure Gray’s replacement was unblemished by their past. Instead, Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s new chief of staff, is known for failing to declare donations of £700,000 from big business when he headed the think tank, Labour Together, earning a fine from the Electoral Commission.

Labour Together, the organisation that McSweeney used to head, and which funded Labour candidates across Scotland and the UK, is that which suggested gangs of people smugglers should be sent to Scotland. The public are already done with Starmer. YouGov’s polling shows 58 per cent think Starmer is sleazier or equally as sleazy as Rishi Sunak, who issued corrupt Covid contracts to Tory friends.

Angus Robertson is MSP for Edinburgh Central and Constitution, External Affairs and Culture Secretary

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