Starmer: Liz Truss is the “Destroyer of Development…”
On cue, Sir Keir has hit the airwaves this morning to go on the counterattack after Liz’s convention speech. As anticipated, Liz’s “anti-growth coalition” line is doing all of the heavy lifting, with Starmer erupting right into a sort of “I do know you’re, however what am I?” defence on BBC Radio Sheffield:
“Oh for heaven’s sake… the enemies of development? She has simply handed a kamikaze mini-Price range which has misplaced management of the economic system, is placing a whole lot of kilos on folks’s mortgage payments […] that’s the absolute reverse of development. She’s…she- she’s completely not simply anti-growth, she’s the destroyer of development!”
Like Liz final week, Starmer made a whistle-stop tour of native media this morning, so inevitably he was requested about this repeatedly. He reacted extra of much less the identical method in every interview, as if it’s the primary time he’d heard the accusation. At the least he’s nailed the message self-discipline…
