Starmer says Sturgeon set the bar for herself
KEIR STARMER, the UK Labour leader, said Nicola Sturgeon has set the standard for which she has adhere to and if she broke the ministerial code, the code says she should resign.
Mr Starmer was in Glasgow to visit the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and meet front line staff and the teams working in the research facility.
Speaking to the Glasgow Times he said: “We shouldn’t prejudge the report which is due next week but if it finds the First Minister misled parliament and broke the ministerial code that is incredibly serious.
“It goes to the office of First
Minister. We don’t know yet. The code itself says you should resign and she wrote the foreword. She has set the standard.”
The Labour leader met with staff in Glasgow working on Covid vaccines and research into different variants. He said: “It is humbling to meet those incredible front line staff who have worked on the covid wards and they have been through in the last year. dealing with the stress and anxiety of Covid. “The vaccine roll-out has been tremendous but there is a cause for concern over the supplies. We need more transparency from the Prime Minister of what the root cause of the problem is.”
Starmer was on visits with Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar.
On the day Labour won one council by-election in Glasgow and lost another, he said there were signs of a change from the new leadership.
He said the Partick East/ Kelvindale result was “very pleasing”.
He added: “In the last three weeks since Anas Sarwar has been leader there is an energy and focus about Scottish Labour.
“There is a clear choice come May between, the Tories, who want to go back to where we were before the pandemic and the SNP, who want to go back to the division of an independence referendum, or Labour ,who want to focus on the recovery of education, health and jobs.”