Keir Starmer U-turns AGAIN as he slams ‘Corbyn-style’ manifestos despite previously praising their ‘decency’

SIR Keir Starmer lavished Jeremy Corbyn’s manifestos with heaps of reward despite utilizing them to slur the Tories’ election plans.

The Labour chief, then campaigning for ex-leader Mr Corbyn, mentioned in a social media video that the celebration’s pledges on the final election confirmed “decency and dignity”.

But he dramatically U-turned on the paperwork he had previously backed – blasting {that a} “Corbyn-style” manifesto meant “none of it is costed”.

The main flip-flop got here as Starmer was criticised for an assault on members of his personal celebration, with some mentioning Sir Keir had backed two Corbyn manifestos as his “right-hand man”.

Starmer mentioned his personal plan, to be launched on Thursday, was “fully costed” and wouldn’t embrace any earnings tax, VAT or nationwide insurance coverage will increase.

He additionally fumed that the Tories had been proposing a “Jeremy Corbyn-style manifesto where anything you want can go in it, none of it is costed.”

But in a Facebook video filmed at Euston station hours earlier than Corbyn unveiled the plans in 2019, Starmer declared: “I feel on this election, what I’m listening to is folks really need change.

“They need to finish the inequality that they see, they usually simply need decency and dignity, and that’s what this manifesto is about.

“Real change, bold change and ambition to satisfy the wants.

“Please have a learn of it and vote Labour.” A second video clip from the Labour management election in 2020 additionally resurfaced, displaying Sir Keir describing Corbyn’s 2017 manifesto as a “foundational document”.

He mentioned on the time: “We ought to deal with the 2017 manifesto as our foundational doc, the radicalism and the hope that that impressed throughout the nation was actual.

 

“Anybody who knocked on a door in that election is aware of it was actual.

“So we now have to hold on to that as we go ahead”.

Ex-Tory cupboard minister Sir Simon Clarke blasted: “This from the man who backed two ‘actual’ Corbyn manifestos.

“The sheer nerve is unbelievable.”

And former Tory MP Michael Fabricant mentioned: “Says Starmer who was Corbyn’s right-hand man when he wrote each his manifestos.

“Such chutzpah”.

Even the Momentum group of left-wing campaigners slammed the celebration chief for the jibe, writing: “Labour’s 2019 manifesto was totally costed.

“Keir ought to know, he stood on it as a member of the shadow cupboard.

“How about stopping attacking your personal aspect throughout an election?”

Labour was requested to remark.