The Tories are persevering with to pile stress on Sir Keir Starmer over his previous assist for his Labour predecessor Jeremy Corbyn.
In a brand new assault advert, the Conservatives have highlighted Sir Keir’s pledge of ‘100 per cent’ assist for Mr Corbyn whereas he was Labour chief.
The 30-second clip additionally reveals Sir Keir urging social gathering members to not ‘trash’ Mr Corbyn’s report, and denying claims the veteran left-winger was ‘a hazard’ to British Jews.
The Tories launched the video after Sir Keir final night time squirmed over his previous assist for Mr Corbyn throughout a grilling on the BBC’s Query Time.
The Labour chief ducked a volley of questions over whether or not he actually believed Mr Corbyn would have made a ‘nice’ prime minister – as he beforehand claimed.
Sir Keir Starmer ducked a volley of questions on BBC Query Time over whether or not he actually believed Jeremy Corbyn would have made a ‘nice’ prime minister – as he beforehand claimed
Since changing Mr Corbyn as Labour chief in 2020, Sir Keir has tried to distance himself from his hard-left predecessor
Since changing Mr Corbyn as Labour chief in 2020, Sir Keir has tried to distance himself from his hard-left predecessor.
Mr Corbyn’s time in command of Labour was marked by a collection of anti-Semitism rows, whereas a former head of MI6 branded him a ‘hazard’ to nationwide safety.
When he was first elected Labour chief in 2015, Mr Corbyn mentioned he would by no means use Britain’s nuclear weapons if he grew to become PM. He additionally later voted towards the renewal of the UK’s Trident programme.
In 2018, following the poisonings of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, Mr Corbyn was accused of ‘siding with Russia’ after criticising the Authorities for ‘speeding’ in charge Vladimir Putin’s regime.
In 2022, whereas he was suspended as a Labour MP beneath Sir Keir’s management, Mr Corbyn expressed a want that army alliances like NATO could possibly be finally disbanded.
He mentioned he didn’t blame NATO for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, however added it needed to be checked out in a historic context.
Throughout his look on Query Time final night time, Sir Keir was laughed at by the viewers as he dodged replying ‘sure or no’ when requested whether or not he meant it when he mentioned Mr Corbyn would have been a ‘nice’ premier.
The Labour chief as a substitute instructed his predecessor would have been ‘higher’ than Boris Johnson.
‘It wasn’t a query that basically arose as a result of I did not assume we had been going to win the election,’ Sir Keir mentioned, when pressed on his declare Mr Corbyn could be a ‘nice’ PM forward of the 2019 basic election.
As Sir Keir squirmed over questions on his previous assist for Mr Corbyn, the Tories launched a 30-second clip on social media of the Labour chief’s earlier feedback.
It included Sir Keir saying he was ‘100 per cent behind Jeremy Corbyn’ and ‘working with Jeremy Corbyn to attempt to win the following basic election’.
In one other clip, from his 2020 marketing campaign for the Labour management, Sir Keir was proven telling social gathering members: ‘Do not trash the final 4 years, as a result of what Jeremy Corbyn dropped at this social gathering… he made us an anti-austerity social gathering that stood towards cuts.’
In an additional clip, Sir Keir was proven being challenged over a declare by Louise Ellman, a former Labour MP, that Mr Corbyn was a ‘hazard not simply to the Labour Celebration however to the whole British Jewish group’. Sir Keir replied: ‘I do not settle for that.’
Mr Corbyn is standing as an impartial candidate on this yr’s basic election in Islington North, the constituency he has held since 1983.
He was blocked by Sir Keir from standing as a Labour candidate within the seat after shedding the social gathering whip in 2020, when he mentioned allegations of anti-Semitism throughout his time in cost had been exaggerated by political opponents.
