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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

Starmer looks less like a PM and more like a lawyer desperately trying to defend himself

Keir Starmer assumed full lawyer mode during this week’s PMQs, as the embattled prime minister endured yet another grilling on what he did and did not know about the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal.

The problem is that, in doing so, he looked less like a prime minister and more like a man in the courtroom of public opinion, battling to defend a threadbare case.

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