The Prime Minister has finally admitted what we’ve all known for a long time.
And it’s an accusation HE all too willingly threw around when he was in opposition.
Now it’s Keir Starmer who’s asleep at the wheel. And that’s not just my opinion, it’s the Prime Minister’s own self-assessment.
This was the Sunday Times front page yesterday where Starmer admitted he failed to get to grips with the revolt by Labour MPs over benefit cuts because he was distracted by the Middle East and a Nato summit.
Ben Leo says ‘every man and his dog, including the Prime Minister himself, knows he stands for absolutely nothing’
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He of course spent much of the last fortnight out of the country, as he so often does.
And it’s a fact, by the way, that the PM loves being abroad so much that at the end of last year, he’d embarked on more foreign trips than all his Tory predecessors.
You have to ask yourself what the hell he’s running away from?
Not only wasn’t he here for the release of the rape gangs report from Baroness Casey, and PMQs that week, the Prime Minister failed to understand his own MPs were mounting a massive rebellion over plans to cut £5billion from the welfare bill.
Just like the winter fuel payment, rape gang inquiry and his island of strangers speech, he was forced to U-turn on the welfare cuts as he faced a hugely damaging defeat in the Commons tomorrow.
Starmer’s concessions included allowing 800,000 Pip claimants to keep their benefits – part of a backdown that will now only save £2billion a year rather than the initial £5billion the Government expected to save by 2030.
But tonight, ahead of the vote tomorrow, rebel MPs are still saying the PM hasn’t gone far enough.
It’s not even been a year in power but Keir Starmer has dealt with enough scandals, U-turns and garish polls that make the Tories look like amateurs.
I guess that’s what happens when every man and his dog, including the Prime Minister himself, knows he stands for absolutely nothing.
