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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Simon Walters

Voices: The Rushanara Ali scandal exposes Starmer’s double standards on sleaze

One of the reasons Keir Starmer won a landslide at the last election was voters’ repulsion at the endless sleaze and hypocrisy of the last Tory government. Starmer tore into Boris Johnson time and again over his abuse of power as prime minister and refusal to deal firmly with misconduct by his own ministers.

That would all end when Starmer entered No 10, we were told. And we believed him.

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