The leader of the Labour party was left red faced after journalists attending a key environment and energy speech were asked to board a diesel powered bus that got lost en route.
Sir Keir Starmer was challenged by a member of the press who said that journalists were due to take a ‘hydrogen powered bus’ to the Labour leader’s latest energy announcement.
Members of the media were told that a green powered bus would be picking them up from Waverley Station to take them to the event but instead they were met with a Lothian Bus with a confused driver, the Scottish Daily Express reports.
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The double-decker transport had to be guided by one of the journalists on board to the destination which led to both Sir Starmer and Anas Sarwar being quizzed by the press.
The Scottish Guardian editor Severin Carrell called the party out, saying while he may love Lothian buses, “Keir Starmer’s clean energy strategy it ain’t”. This was before critics lined up to accuse the party of allowing 90,000 Scottish jobs to be thrown on the scrapyard.
Journalists reported being completely lost and driving in the wrong direction, half an hour after setting off. A Daily Mail reporter stepped in to give directions.
Keir Starmer and Labour leader Anas Sarwar were clearly embarrassed when the Times flagged the problems.
The Times informed the Labour leaders about the chaotic day, saying: “This morning journalists were promised a hydrogen bus to bring them down here today - in fact what was waiting for them was a diesel vehicle with a driver who didn’t know where we were going”.
“Given that and given Labour appears to have spent the last few weeks squabbling over the details of this after what Anas called an ‘unhelpful briefing’ to the Sunday Times a few weeks ago, why should anyone trust Labour to be across the details to make these ambitious plans work.”
Mr Sarwar tried laughing the chaos off, responding: “There’s a hydrogen bus company here so I’m sure we’ll talk to them and make sure we’re recruiting more hydrogen buses across our public transport infrastructure”.
Responding to the farce, Tory vice chair Lee Anderson told the Express: “So Sir Slippery’s latest gaffe has backfired as he attempted to appease the green lobby by travelling to the venue on a hydrogen powered bandwagon.
“It turns out it was a diesel-powered bus with no sat nav. If you are going to jump on every bandwagon that passes at least make sure you know what direction you are travelling in.”
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