MP Rosie Duffield has ensured that the row over Keir Starmer accepting freebies will remain in the news by resigning from the Labour party, stating that they care “more about greed and power than making a difference”.
About 18 months ago, I discussed Rishi Sunak’s ongoing complications with sleaze in the Conservatives. The problem for Sunak, I suggested, is that given that he promised to bring integrity, professionalism and accountability to high office, he was more exposed than most to questions of ethics and propriety.
And of course I would say this, but Starmer’s top team really should pay closer attention to me. It made perfect sense for him and his team to make hay while the sun shined in opposition and attack the Tories over standards in public life. Still, they ought to have known every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
