Always so disappointing when MPs let nonsense like this go out in their name. It just makes them all look terrible. Of these 26 days, a hypothetical prime minister Rishi Sunak or Kemi Badenoch would have done 24 of them *at least*.
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Ben Obese-Jecty MP
“…he will have been out of the country for 26 days – five working weeks in just under five months in office”
Keir Starmer is so happy to play the international statesman role because he’s struggling to make progress domestically and it’s easier to avoid scrutiny.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer is so happy to play the international statesman role because he’s struggling to make progress domestically and it’s easier to avoid scrutiny.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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He would need to completely abandon number 10 before he would inflict as much damage as those two did.
Selective amnesia Ben.
No new PM would skip the G20
Starmer works non-stop during a huge period of global instability = Hellfire
Starmer gets free gig tickets = Hellfire
Starmer refuses free golf membership = Hellfire
The last few years of Johnson, Truss and Sunak reduced us to being rude and obnoxious outsiders on the international stage.
Plus, most of that stuff would have been in the diary, anyway, for whoever was PM to do. .
Of course, if he had skipped many of them, the RW media would complan as well
Environmentally friendly.
I'm not watching him through my fingers (like I did Johnson's buffoonery performances).
Starmer makes me proud to be a UK citizen and a citizen of Europe.
If we are to get the "benefits of Brexit" we need to foster these international relations.
Is the Prime Minister's role domestic or international?
But most importantly how does the Brexit Conservative party think international trade deals happen? By ignoring UNGA, G20, COP29 etc.
What point are these idiots trying to ram down our throats -the purpose of a PM is surely this, to represent us on the world stage and thankfully we now have a PM who looks/acts the part. Dresses smartly, combs his hair doesn’t spout hateful divisive drivel ad infinitum. I am relieved about that.
And although the new Tory party doesn't mind Putin, the rest of us don't want to be annexed to Russia.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/james-cleverly-private-jet-rwanda-b2632625.html
Probably also not helped by his obvious lack of confidence in David Lammy.
PS: I write my own tweets
It’s so difficult to create divisions when faced with real questions based on real facts and the consequences of decisions.
Thankyou for challenging back in this way. It’s what journalists should do over and over again.
When your opponent(?) is arguing that attending almost every one of those events is individually important but collectively they're bad, they're not winning
As for struggling domestically…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-polling-approval-ratings-b2637357.html
Thanks for asking the questions as you have.
2, David Lammy has not said anything worse than everyone else. Even Trump's own VP said Trump was America's Hitler
3, PMQs. Thanks to Kemi's student-like efforts she is already more unpopular than Sunak
Grow up
Making it basically a non storey.
One of the main issues people had with the last govt was imo the disengenious approach to many issues.
I feel you should learn from that.
If you feel Starmer is spending too much time abroad, why not identify which trips he should not have attended, rather than triviality about the totality.
If he is “struggling domestically” then feel free to scrutinise and oppose.
Of those 26 days out of the country, which ones would you suggest a struggling PM called Rishi Sunak would have swerved if he'd called the election in January 2025, instead of July 2024, and why?