Interviewer: 'By implication you are comparing [Brexiteers] to the Nazi Party... that was an unacceptable comparison wasn't it?'
Lammy: 'I would say that wasn't strong enough'.
Foreign Secretary in 3 weeks? No one's asking - except
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WATCH: Keir Starmer wants you to forget he continually supported Jeremy Corbyn - but the receipts are here:
'I am one hundred per cent behind Jeremy Corbyn'
'I am working with Jeremy Corbyn to win the general election'
'Don't trash [Corbyn]... he made us an anti austerity party'
Angela Rayner says she now backs Trident but she is on record saying of nuclear weapons: 'What we want to see is multilateral disarmament of them'. She voted against Trident renewal in 2016
#labourreceipts
#bbcdebate
Revealed: Emily Thornberry declines to say that Islamic State members should be stopped from returning to the UK, if it were possible. She would be Attorney General under Starmer. Labour's record on security is going almost completely unexamined in this election
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Emily Thornberry was on media today supporting Labour's plan to put VAT on private school fees
She opposes all selective schools - even though she sent her own child to one. She said previously: 'as a mother I will never apologise for doing the best for my kids'
Is anyone
Keir Starmer claimed last week that he would *never* use private healthcare – even if a relative was stuck on a long NHS waiting list
But Keir Starmer's main proposal to cut waiting lists is... to increase private healthcare provision. Is Labour trolling Britain?
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Interviewer: 'So university tuition fees being scrapped will be in a Starmer manifesto at the next election?
Starmer: 'Yes, that's why it's a pledge'
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#manifestofiles
Keir Starmer said stripping Shamima Begum of her British citizenship was the 'wrong decision'. He now says Labour is the 'party of national security'.
Could he become Prime Minister without detailed scrutiny?
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Keir Starmer repeatedly pledged he would nationalise energy, water, rail, Royal Mail in the 2024 Labour manifesto: 'I've made that commitment... yes'. That was his mandate from Labour members.
Today
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brings you 'Labour: The Manifesto Files'
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Keir Starmer's choice for Foreign Secretary - David Lammy - once claimed that Indians who fought for Britain in World War Two: 'fought for the European project'. No one remembers - apart from
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Reeves: 'You can never have a true system of comprehensive education whilst you still have selection, I would like to see an education system where fewer children are at selective schools'. Does anyone believe Labour would stop at VAT on private school fees?
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Interviewer: 'You seemed to compare the Brexiteer wing of the Conservative Party to Nazi Germany and to apartheid, do you regret the language that you used?'
David Lammy: 'Not at all'
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Revealed: Angela Rayner defended Labour's motion to 'redistribute' the 'endowments, investments and properties held by private schools'- effectively abolishing them. She backed the policy on TV.
Labour yesterday denied she wants to abolish private schools - after
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Revealed: Labour's Deputy Leader and Shadow Chancellor endorsed abolishing all private schools. Rayner promised: 'We will end the marketisation and privatisation of our education system' while Reeves applauded. Would this come after VAT on fees? Is anyone asking?
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Keir Starmer pledged to Labour members that he would nationalise water, energy, rail and Royal Mail, like Jeremy Corbyn: 'I've made that commitment'
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*LABOUR: THE TAX FILES*
Rachel Reeves repeatedly advocated a 50p top rate of income tax, a mansion tax and cutting pensions tax reliefs. Who is asking what she would do as Chancellor with a supermajority?
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Labour's plan to put VAT on private school fees will not help pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds - it will do the opposite
In the King's Speech debate I asked Labour ministers not to pull up the ladder
Revealed: Rachel Reeves responded to the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea by urging Ukraine to find 'common ground' with Russia, saying: 'We need to get the Ukrainians and Russians talking... there are options on the table short of sanctions and certainly short of military
Nandy: 'At a minimum we should bring wealth taxes into line with income taxes because we won't solve this by squeezing people's incomes alone - we go after the wealth... wealth is in assets and that's where we start'. Labour must be asked about their record on tax
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Everyone: 'Keir Starmer, a pledge is not an indication - a pledge is your word, it's a pledge!'
Keir Starmer: .............
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#manifestofiles
Revealed: Keir Starmer proposed 'downsizing' the monarchy when he was running for Labour leader. Lisa Nandy - who would serve in his Cabinet - openly suggested abolishing the monarchy altogether.
Both positions were more forward leaning than Rebecca Long-Bailey, the Corbynite
*LABOUR: THE TAX FILES*
Keir Starmer repeatedly endorsed a 50p top rate of income tax - which was introduced by the last Labour government. He pledged to reintroduce it during his leadership campaign
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Keir Starmer singing the Red Flag back when he wanted Jeremy Corbyn to become Prime Minister, John McDonnell to become Chancellor and Diane Abbott to become Home Secretary
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1) When elected Starmer claimed he wanted to cut immigration
2) He then repeatedly backed free movement, effectively saying numbers should increase
3) Now he says he wants to reduce immigration and opposes free movement
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#manifestofiles
Revealed: Keir Starmer pledged to 'call for the closure' of Yarl's Wood detention centre and 'end indefinite detention' in the immigration system. Surprising this hasn't been raised in the debate over immigration policy
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Why is no one talking about the record of Keir Starmer's shadow cabinet on Russia - when Europe is at war? They endorsed Jeremy Corbyn. Here, Emily Thornberry jokes about a Russian nuclear threat to the UK
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In this clip, Lisa Nandy argues for devolution to local areas - unless the area decides it wants more selective schools
Never mind VAT on private school fees - Labour's top team has a long record of opposing educational options chosen by millions and millions of British parents
Keir Starmer repeatedly promised to scrap universal credit - a core part of his leadership mandate from Labour members. After he became leader, he just ditched it
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David Lammy, Britain's likely incoming Foreign Secretary, equated Brexit backing MPs to 'the far right in Germany' saying 'I don't care how elected they were'
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Labour says it will place a lock on tax rises - but Keir Starmer repeatedly and consistently advocated for tax rises, including on income: 'that includes the way people earn their money whether it's from earned wages, or rent, or stocks and dividends'
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Darren Jones: 'I'd rather Brexit wasn't happening... if we were in govt I'd want us to be organising an agreement... that provided continued access to the single market and the customs union'. Odd that Labour's plan to rejoin is barely mentioned. 15 days to go
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Emily Thornberry (Attorney General in a few weeks under Starmer?) refused to reject Jeremy Corbyn's idea that the UK should keep its nuclear submarines, but put them to sea without any warheads 🤣
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Starmer commented on Extinction Rebellion protests in his constituency: 'As the Extinction Rebellion protests showed us this week the next generation are not going to forgive us if we don't take action, there's been lots of talk, now we need action'
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Keir Starmer promises the GMB union (one of Labour's biggest donors) that he will repeal the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 - which ensures a minimum service by health, education, fire, border security, transport and nuclear workers. This could happen in the next
Emily Thornberry heaped praise on Castro's Cuba. She would be in charge of human rights in Starmer's Cabinet.
'It's quite difficult to get beyond the human rights abuses but my own experience... it came at a price, but in my view it was a brave island that stood against a regime
"I don't think that Trident is a top priority for me and I think that the biggest threat from Russia is things like cyber attacks... this is the modern stuff... the real threat from Russia is much more modern, much more subtle, much more nuanced"
Emily Thornberry would be
Labour claims to be committed to maintaining the UK's nuclear weapons
But Keir Starmer would put Louise Haigh in Cabinet, who said:
“There are issues on the table that have not been debated in the Labour Party since before I was born, Trident, membership of NATO and a real
Keir Starmer's record advocating for wealth taxes was just put him by
@BethRigby
on Sky's
#BattleForNo10
- he denied advocating a wealth tax, but the evidence is clear from his record, uncovered by
#labourreceipts
Labour says it will place a lock on tax rises - but Keir Starmer repeatedly and consistently advocated for tax rises, including on income: 'that includes the way people earn their money whether it's from earned wages, or rent, or stocks and dividends'
#labourreceipts
Revealed: Starmer called Edward Snowden a "whistleblower" even after he fled to Russia and had been charged with espionage, praising his leaks, which infuriated the UK and US governments. For those interested it's on
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Angela Rayner when asked last year whether she could do the job of Prime Minister: 'Yes I think I could do it now, I think I could'
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got your back Sir Keir
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Labour claims it has 'locked' income tax under Starmer
But he is on record supporting a previously proposed cut to the basic rate of income tax - costed at £7 billion. Has he ditched that view?
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Starmer is on record supporting a £15/hour minimum wage: 'ought to be the norm in 21st century Britain and it will be the norm if we have a Labour government'. Can't see that Labour has been asked to define its 'genuine living wage' pledge by anyone so far
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"I don't think that Trident is a top priority for me and I think that the biggest threat from Russia is things like cyber attacks... this is the modern stuff... the real threat from Russia is much more modern, much more subtle, much more nuanced"
Emily Thornberry would be
Starmer: 'We need to look again at the settlement, have a constitutional convention... we do need radical federalism and whether a Scottish Parliament should have power over an independence referendum is an interesting question'
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Emily Thornberry: "When I talk to people who tell me they are worried about Russia, I can completely understand where they are coming from, but I also believe we need to ask ourselves whether it is right to place our trust in one single weapons system [Trident]'
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journalists have been inspired to examine Labour's record by
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Starmer just before the 2019 general election:
"I'm 100% behind Jeremy Corbyn."
Starmer during the 2020 leadership campaign: "Don't trash" the Corbyn years!
Anyone who claims he isn't lying through his teeth is themselves, by definition, a liar.
Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds says she ‘does not agree’ with abolishing private schools after reports that Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves pledged to get rid of them.
"It is certainly not Labour policy now. It is a choice for parents to make."
#Talk
Keir Starmer says he never said Labour would win in 2019, but we've kept the receipts...
Has he forgotten when he said "we can, and we must, win" or is he straight-up lying?
#BattleForNo10
Emily Thornberry heaped praise on Castro's Cuba. She would be in charge of human rights in Starmer's Cabinet.
'It's quite difficult to get beyond the human rights abuses but my own experience... it came at a price, but in my view it was a brave island that stood against a regime
This is a very odd account.
It’s under the name of Boris Johnson’s former spokesperson (who got a peerage from the former PM) where random quotes from Labour shadow cabinet ministers are unearthed with no timings/context of the quotes/clips
Some Tory MPs are retweeting them
This is absolutely brilliant work from Ross, and so important to see a Conservative with plenty of fire in his belly to take the fight to Labour. Great to see a masterful ex-CRD Director at work like this. Hoping to see much more incisive point-scoring like this from more