Tweet trouble brewing for calamity Keir

KeiR STaRmeR has had a disastrous week and must be relying on his team to rally round. in particular, he will be looking to matthew Doyle, his director of communications who was head of press for Labour under Tony blair.

Doyle travelled the world with blair after he left office, when the ex-Labour leader became the richest former Pm in british history.

His partner of five years is Philip normal, the first openly HiVpositive mayor in the country who resigned as a councillor for Lambeth in South London in January and will no longer be a candidate in this week’s local elections.

The fashion designer, who changed his surname from burr to normal by deed poll, is now under investigation by the party after a number of offensive tweets came to light.

They include: ‘Why do some muslim women walk like penguins?’ which normal tweeted on September 29, 2011. He described Whitechapel in east London as an ‘aggressively muslim’ neighbourhood in a tweet on January 22, 2013. on may 27, 2011, he complained about a ‘big black man’ taking up room on a bus.

When normal was campaigning in the past for re-election he was using the same Twitter account with which he’d made the offensive remarks.

after the old tweets resurfaced, he tweeted to say sorry: ‘i sincerely apologise to everyone who has seen them and who i have insulted by their contents.’

The revelations will do little to help Labour rehabilitate itself after Corbyn — something which Starmer has been desperately trying to achieve.