After claiming that Labour is on the same side as criminal people-trafficking gangs, Rishi Sunak clearly owes a rival party leader an apology. The person he should be saying sorry to is not Keir Starmer but Boris Johnson. When Johnson struck a low blow against Starmer for having failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile while DPP, Sunak swiftly joined the pious outrage club against the then prime minister.
‘I wouldn’t have said it,’ he claimed, at what was a moment of particularly intense political peril and personal crisis for Johnson. Never mind that Johnson had thrown his below-the-belt punch immediately after Starmer had mounted an extraordinarily unpleasant attack on him that alleged he ruined the lives of everyone he came into contact with. Sunak was nevertheless determined to side with the Labour leader.
Could we be seeing the death of Head Boy Rishi and the birth of a Hard-As-Nails Rishi?
Let us take it as read that for the Prime Minister to now deliver an even more outrageous slur against His Majesty’s loyal opposition exposes him to charges of cant and hypocrisy that are difficult to rebut.
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