Oh dear. It’s not been the smoothest of starts this morning for Sir Keir Starmer, who is in Manchester launching the Labour manifesto. As the Labour leader was introducing his party’s official election manifesto to swathes of supporters and reporters, he was rather rudely interrupted.
A rather young protestor holding a banner emblazoned with the words: ‘Youth Deserves Better’ was the culprit. Slamming Starmer’s ‘change’ agenda, she raged:
We have been let down by the Labour Party and this manifesto. You say that you’re offering change but it’s the same old Tory policies. We need better.
Ouch…
Sir Keir retorted that ‘we gave up being a party of protest five years ago’ — before the young woman was forcibly removed by security. Mr S wonders whether Starmer may be rethinking his plans to allow 16 year olds the vote. It doesn’t seem like young people are really all that enamoured by him…
Watch the clip here:
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