All Within The Rules

Managing not to mention the Palestinians once, a putative Prime Minister who cannot define a woman has today given an interview to a newspaper the tiny circulation of which is mostly made up of the other party's hardcore opponents resident in that party's safe seats. A particularly high proportion of those readers will be non-doms, which answers the question of whether Labour still wished to abolish that status, a commitment on which Keir Starmer has never not been elected to Parliament.

Who is to criticise Akshata Murthy? Rachel Reeves? Her parliamentary credit card was once cancelled and the debt was recovered by no longer paying out on legitimate claims. Formed at the Bank of England and at the British Embassy in Washington, she personifies this country's permanent economic and foreign policy, impervious to mere General Elections. Of course she has no intention of abolishing the non-domicile tax status without which every other country apart from Ireland gets by. And of course Starmer wants her to be Chancellor of the Exchequer if he were to become First Lord of the Treasury.

Hey, ho. Thanks to Netflix, the whole world now knows who and what Jimmy Savile was. It is inconceivable that the decision not to charge someone as famous and as well-connected as that was taken by anyone other than the then Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer. To stand as a Labour candidate at the next General Election would be to endorse that decision, raising serious questions about your own sexual interest in children. Any Labour candidate here at North West Durham would be asked those questions by me online, in print, on the airwaves, and on the stump.