Desperate stuff, indeed. See also : Rees-Mogg dismissing the lockdown parties debacle as “trivial fluff” :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60796311.
I think Rees-Mogg has badly miscalculated here if he thinks that real people are going to agree with his dismissal of Johnson’s gross misbehaviour, lies, and contempt for the many who lost loved ones in the Covid-19 pandemic . Obviously, he was speaking to an audience of Tory wingnuts at their spring conference, but if anything, his reported remarks are likely, I think, to enrage people further.
Starmer and the Labour Party need to start thinking about how we capitalise electorally on this undiminished public outrage to ensure that Johnson does not wriggle off the hook.The party needs to be prepared fo the eventual publication of the unredacted Sue Gray report, and the results of the Met investigation. I appreciate that Starmer is trying to present a “united front” in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it’s surely possible to do this while also holding Johnson very much to account. Incidentally, Labour could also do much more around the utter, totally egregious scandal of Tory complicity in the active laundering of billions of pounds of criminally appropriated money stolen by Russian oligarchs in London, and the proportion of that dirty cash that has found its way into Tory Party coffers . I do think that this is SUCH a massive scandal that is in danger of simply being accepted by the electorate when voters should be, frankly, manning the barricades, such is the magnitude of the scandal. I hope and trust that Mr Starmer is on top of this.
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