Oh dear. In yet another campaign blunder for Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader has been forced to fess up to using a private jet — just hours after taunting Rishi Sunak’s helicopter use. Rules for thee but not for me…
The lefty Labour leader flew to Scotland on a private plane to make an announcement about his ambitions to set up a publicly-owned ‘GB Energy’ company — but was curiously reluctant about revealing his mode of transport, with a Labour spokesperson eventually admitting:
Yes, we did use a private jet because we needed to get very quickly to Scotland from Wales yesterday. We have to use the most efficient form of transport in the middle of a very busy general election campaign.
Talk about hypocrisy. Sir Keir’s luxury trip comes after his party slammed Sunak for his ‘elitist’ travel choice of private jets at the start of the year. More than that, last October shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves declared that a Labour government would curb
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