As if Starmer Chameleon hadn’t done enough U-turns this year. Ahead of his party conference in Liverpool, the Labour leader has defended his decision to write for a newspaper despised in Liverpool and across swathes of the North West of England. Speaking to ITV Granada yesterday, Sir Keir spoke passionately of his collaboration with the Sun newspaper:
I have to make sure that what we have to say is communicated to as many people as possible in the time that we’ve got available. That is why I’m very happy to work with the Sun, to write for the Sun, to do interviews with the Sun…
How very odd. Mr S could have sworn that when running for leader in January 2020, Starmer said the exact opposite at a hustings in Liverpool. He told activists then that ‘this city has been wounded by the media – the Sun … I certainly won’t be giving an interview to the Sun during the course of this campaign’.
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