Spare us the faux outrage, Sir Keir
NOT since my seven-year-old classmate, sean, shot his arm in the air to protest to ‘Miss’ that i’d jogged him as he was finishing his drawing of a sabre-toothed tiger have i seen such infantile, fabricated point-scoring as Keir starmer’s outburst in the Commons during last Wednesday’s prime Minister’s Questions. it was arm-waving of the worst kind, accusing the PM of deliberately insulting the mother of Brianna ghey while she was in the gallery.
But even if we ignore the fact that esther ghey wasn’t yet in the gallery and the PM had made no mention of her by either name or inference, it is simply not the done thing to refer to visitors in the gallery anyway. sir Keir ignored protocol, assuming a look of faux horror at the very idea of it all. ‘shame,’ he declared nasally, ignoring the fact that the only mention of Brianna’s mum had been his.
But like schoolboy sean, sir Keir is never one to pass up an opportunity to reshuffle reality to his advantage. sean earned himself 100 lines, so perhaps starmer should get started with, ‘schoolboy antics have no place in the house of Commons’.
TONY EDWARDS, Ockham, Surrey.
DESPITE Julie Bindel’s superb article contradicting starmer (Mail), i am dismayed that some will have taken his theatrical display at face value.
R. MASON, Littlehampton, W. Sussex.
PRIME Minister’s Questions has become a point-scoring, sniping and slanging match between the two main party leaders, which is not its purpose. it has become very uncomfortable to watch on TV.
PATRICIA NASH, Poole, Dorset.
SIR Keir starmer gave a childish display of faux outrage at rishi sunak’s jibe, which was not an attack on trans people and certainly not an attack on the late Brianna ghey. he was simply pointing out starmer’s flip-flopping on so many issues.
TREVOR HOWARD, Wolverhampton.
DID anyone else notice the change in shadow Chancellor rachel reeves’s expression when Keir starmer was replying to rishi sunak’s comments about his difficulties with defining biological sex? it turned from a smile to a sneer when she realised what starmer was saying.
DAVID COLE, North Ascot, Berks.
IF sir Keir hopes to pursue a career in acting, he would be well advised not to give up his day job.
KEN STEPHENS, St Austell, Cornwall.