As if Sir Keir Starmer didn’t have enough on his plate what with his freebie scandal, Sue Gray inquiry and his first Labour party conference as PM, his own backbencher has taken aim at him — again. For the third time this week, Diane Abbott has once again very publicly slammed her party leader. Taking to Twitter today, the Hackney North MP posted a classically grainy headshot of her adversary, alongside an acid-tongued attack on Starmer’s freebie fiasco:
Ellie Reeves MP says ‘Labour’s [general election] victory was only possible because under Keir’s leadership we changed the party.’ Changed it into an organisation whose leaders are in the pocket of millionaires?
Ouch. Talk about airing dirty laundry…
It follows two earlier interventions from the Corbynista earlier in the week — with Abbott first confessing to the Beeb she felt Starmer had treated her like a ‘non-person’ over the Frank Hester racism row, before admitting to Elizabeth Day: ‘I’ve never had a nice chat with Keir Starmer.’
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