Boris Johnson has been compared to Jabba the Hutt and a Love Island contestant for failing to tackle the cost of living crisis.
A pepped up Keir Starmer said the Prime Minister’s mind tricks on the UK, with claims that no laws were broken and that the economy was cruising, were not working anymore.
At a noisy Prime Minister’s Questions Starmer stretched for a Star Wars metaphor to throw against the Prime Minister as he said “the force is not with him anymore”
Starmer said: “As for his boasting about the economy, he thinks he can perform Jedi mind tricks on the country. ‘These aren’t the droids you’re looking for, no rules were broken, the economy is booming’.
“The problem is the force just isn’t with him any more. He thinks he’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, the truth is he’s Jabba the Hutt.”
He added: “Last week he stood there and boasted that we would continue to grow the economy, this week it turns out the economy shrank for the second month in a row. How does it help Britain to have an ostrich Britain with his head in the sand?”
The PM hit back: “There he goes again, running this country down...we’ve got the highest employment...we’ve got lower unemployment than France, Germany, Italy, Canada. We’ve got the highest number of people in payroll jobs.
"Just in the first five months of this year this country has attracted I think £16 billion of investment in its tech sector...three times as much as Germany, twice as much as France, he should be talking this country up, not running it down.”
But Starmer was not finished with the tortured comparisons.
He then likened Johnson’s “game playing” to Love Island, warning the Prime Minister he could be booted out for giving the public the “ick”.
Starmer said: “He says the economy is booming when it’s shrinking. He’s game playing so much he thinks he’s on Love Island.
“The trouble is, Prime Minister, that I’m reliably informed that contestants that give the public the ‘ick’, get booted out.”
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