Well, well, well. It now transpires that Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party has spent thousands of pounds on media training for its ministers since winning the July election – yet, despite this, senior politicians have still managed to make a series of rather embarrassing gaffes. Hardly money well spent, eh?
Starmer’s army spent almost £17,000 on broadcast coaching, according to answers to parliamentary questions, with frontbenchers from three government departments getting help for their first few months in power. As reported by the Telegraph, Ministers in the Treasury, the Foreign Office and the Scotland Office received £9,700, £1,848 and £5,416 respectively to aid their media appearances. But despite the large sums, the Starmtroopers have made some rather extraordinary slip-ups during their first five months in government.
It’s always been a gaffe a day with Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who just recently claimed that Syria was ‘next door’ to Libya in an interview about the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime earlier this month. Er, right. Well, there’s at least some truth in the Foreign Secretary’s statement. If you count being separated by Egypt, Israel and Jordan over a 1,000-mile distance as next door, that is…
Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer was blasted for describing Sir Keir’s first 100 days in power as a ‘success’, Scotland Secretary Ian Murray told journalists that No. 10’s cat Larry was a ‘little sh*t’ and former Transport Secretary Louise Haigh almost ruined a £1 billion investment deal with DP World after she described the firm as a ‘rogue operator’. Ouch.
As if we didn’t already have enough proof that the Labour lot are bad with their money…
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