Boris Johnson to shake up No 10 in response to Sue Gray report
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Nile Gardiner, a foreign policy analyst and Telegraph contributor, slammed Sir Keir Starmer on Twitter after the Holborn & St Pancras MP made reference to his former boss Margaret Thatcher. During Sir Keir’s response to Boris Johnson’s comments on Sue Gray’s ‘partygate’ report, the Leader of the Opposition said: “They have spent weeks fraying the bond of trust between the Government and the public, eroding our democracy and the rule of law.
“Margaret Thatcher once said: ‘The first duty of Government is to uphold the law. If it tries to bob and weave and duck around that duty when its inconvenient…then so will the governed’.”
He added: “Whatever people’s politics, whatever party they vote for, honesty and decency matter.
“Our great democracy depends on them.
“Cherishing and nurturing British democracy is what it means to be patriotic.”
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However, the comments provoked a response from Mr Gardiner.
Mr Gardiner, who worked as an aide to the Iron Lady from 2000 to 2002, said: “Keir Starmer has the cheek to quote Margaret Thatcher while launching an attack on a Conservative PM.
“Lady Thatcher would have viewed the Labour leader as a pathetic woke socialist whose party was committed to blocking Brexit and defying the democratic will of the British people.”
Sir Keir Starmer, who served as the Shadow Brexit Secretary under former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was alleged to have made no fewer than 48 attempts to block Brexit.
As Britain marks its second year outside the Brussels bloc, some Tory MPs shared a post uploaded on Twitter by the Leader of the Opposition back in 2019.
In the post, he said: “Whatever Brexit outcome the new Prime Minister puts forward, we must have another referendum.
“Remain must be an option and Labour will campaign for remain.”
During his appearance in the Commons, Mr Johnson also took aim at his opposite number over Brexit.
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The Prime Minister said: “Today, we have delivered yet more Brexit freedoms with a new freeport in Tilbury, as I said, when he voted 48 times to take this country back into the EU.
“We have the most open society, the most open economy.
“This is I think what people want us to focus on.
“We have the most open society and the most open economy in Europe because of the vaccine roll-out, because of the booster roll-out, and never forget that he voted to keep us in the European Medicines Agency, which would have made that impossible.”
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