Gaffe-prone Labour spend £17,000 on media training

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.