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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox and Kate Devlin

Wake-up call for Labour: Football fans aren’t the only ones using expletives about Starmer

The sound of England football fans chanting against Keir Starmer at Saturday night’s otherwise tedious match between England and Andorra is something which should be greatly worrying Labour strategists.

It is very rare that politicians become the subject of chants at matches, and when politics enters the discourse of sports fans, it is almost always a sign of a wider problem.

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