Corbynista cheerleader Ian Lavery is used to dishing it out, but on the evidence of last night’s Question Time he is not quite so good at knowing what to do when it comes back at him. The Labour MP got a taste of his own medicine after Rod Liddle took him to task over the ‘raft of hypocrites’ in his party:
‘Thornberry, Abbott, Chakrabarti, all of who don’t want you to send your kids to private or selective schools but do so for their kids. And for Corbyn and McDonnell who have given support and succour to every possible hostile, violent anti-democrat terrorist regime that they can: IRA, Hamas, Hezbollah, Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela. If you want people like that running your country, vote for Corbyn’
It can’t be much fun, being Sir Keir Starmer right now. If the people across the country chanting ‘Keir Starmer’s a wanker’ isn’t evidence enough, consider the polls. The Labour party is not merely experiencing a dip in support – it is in a state of freefall. A YouGov poll this week has them on
Steerpike
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