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Originally Posted by Chris
I can’t believe Starmer allowed this to become such a massive own-goal. If the ex-Labour man wins the by election there will be a general election within months anyway and they can just deselect him. Trying to brass it out was pointless. It was always going to end this way. His only real choice was whether to be seen to be decisive, or a ditherer. That he couldn’t see that is not encouraging.
However, Sunak is hardly a gifted politician either. He is more than capable of failing to capitalise on this.
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Labour's not giving the impression of being the party-in-waiting with the faffing here.
It's also now on its way now to suspending Graham Jones, former MP for Hyndburn who had hoped to be its general election candidate. It's for leaked interview comments in which he called for Britons fighting for the defence forces of “f.....g Israel” to be “locked up”.
But, despite being handed these two get-out-of-jail-free cards, I agree, I can't see Sunak successfully deploying them to land the punch that he desperately needs.