Oh dear. It seems that James O’Brien has slipped up again in his ceaseless quest for truth. The hard-of-thinking LBC star is always able to spot a winner and now, having so spectacularly lost the arguments on Brexit and Covid classroom closures, he has turned his attentions to Labour, riding high in the polls after last week’s election win. O’Brien seems to have become something of a Keirleader – unsurprising perhaps given both men’s shared enthusiasm for a second referendum.
And it was in that spirit that O’Brien fearlessly tackled one of his own callers who complained about David Lammy telling LBC that Labour will not repeal the Public Order Act – the new law which hands extra powers to the police to handle protests. Lammy said on Sunday that ‘We can’t come into office, picking through all the conservative legislation and repealing it. It would take up so much parliamentary time.
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