- The Labour chief served in Mr Corbyn’s shadow cupboard from 2016 till 2020
Keir Starmer has claimed he by no means believed Jeremy Corbyn could be prime minister, regardless of tirelessly campaigning for years to place him in No 10.
The Labour chief, 61, who served in Mr Corbyn’s shadow cupboard from 2016 till 2020, has insisted he solely did so out of a ‘accountability’ to thwart Boris Johnson‘s Brexit plans.
As shadow secretary of state for exiting the EU, he felt he needed to ‘play a full half’ in what was going to occur subsequent with Brussels.
But in an ITV documentary which aired final night time, Sir Keir stated he didn’t suppose Labour was ‘able to win the final election’, regardless of coming shut in 2017.
‘I did not, clearly, vote for Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 or 2016. On the opposite, I resigned [as shadow immigration minister, in protest of the leadership],’ he stated. ‘I assumed that when the 2016 Brexit referendum had occurred, what then adopted within the subsequent few years was going to be felt for generations. And that it was my accountability to play a full half in that.’
Keir Starmer has claimed he by no means believed Jeremy Corbyn could be prime minister, regardless of tirelessly campaigning for years to place him in No 10
The Labour chief, 61, who served in Mr Corbyn’s shadow cupboard from 2016 till 2020, has insisted he solely did so out of a ‘accountability’ to thwart Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans
But in an ITV documentary which aired final night time, Sir Keir stated he didn’t suppose Labour was ‘able to win the final election’, regardless of coming shut in 2017
During the 2019 election marketing campaign, Sir Keir stated Mr Corbyn ‘would make an amazing prime minister’, and upon successful the Labour management, known as him ‘a pal in addition to a colleague’.
Rebecca Long-Bailey, who served within the shadow cupboard with Sir Keir, stated: ‘All of us have been campaigning to win. As far as I noticed on the bottom, Keir was campaigning as laborious as the remainder of us.’
Jack Lopresti, deputy Tory get together chairman, stated: ‘Same outdated Starmer, he’ll say or do something when the politics swimsuit him. Sir Keir is attempting to erase historical past, however the public has lengthy recollections and will not overlook that he needed Corbyn in No 10.
‘Starmer cannot make the tough choices this nation wants if he cannot even be sincere about his personal previous.’
The Labour chief has made an effort to distance himself from his predecessor. In April he denied he was ever a pal of Mr Corbyn. He instructed LBC: ‘I labored with him as a colleague. I have never spoken to him now for two-and-a-half years.’
Sir Keir has dominated out Mr Corbyn campaigning underneath a Labour banner, that means the Islington North MP should stand towards Labour on the subsequent election if he needs to stay in Parliament.
Tory chairman Richard Holden stated: ‘It’s extraordinary that Sir Keir campaigned twice to place Jeremy Corbyn, a person who known as terrorist teams ‘pals’, into 10 Downing Street, simply so he might pressure a second Brexit referendum.’