Disgraced Former Minister Returns Under Starmer

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[kenhardy]

Break the law, fiddle your expenses and get a cabinet seat in a Labour government. Way to go.

[finlayfraser]

Thornbury, one of Corbyn's assassins!

[charliemoore]

I suspect that Hermer will last as long he gives Starmer the advice he wants to hear. If he tells him he's illegally supporting war crimes in Palestine, he'll be gone faster than you can say "Martin Forde".

[displacednaija]

Assange in prison for 5 years was criminal

[thegoat]

Smith coming back reminds me of everything that I hated about the last Labour government.

[steveharrison]

Emily Thornberry went from someone I didn't really object to very much to someone I thoroughly loathed in in those two sentences in that interview. Didn't really find her objectionable before: absolutely disgusting genocide fangirl afterwards.

[NeoFreshair]

I'm glad Labour got the big win, so the British can see what they're capable of and if they're socialist party or Tories in red!!! We all know nothing will change, and I can't understand how British people and same with Western societies all voting the two main political parties and claim that's democracy?!! How can it be democracy voting only the two main political parties?

[mach]

Wasn't Jacqui Smith caught fiddling ahh so that's how you get into the House of Lords is it?

[DwainDwight]

as I have said, almost from day one, Starmer is Blair 2.0. the day Blair was head of labour, was they day I started voting Greens. have done so ever since.

[andrewrose]

Timpsons was founded 1903... he's looking pretty good as the "founder"

[deborahjones]

Really surprising - wasn’t Jacqui just ‘ disgraced’ but also considered to be an incompetent minister? Puzzling decision by Keir - ethically and politically.

[Mazacious]

She parroted starmer and then effectively got sacked for it. This guy 😂

[chrisbirmingham]

Peter Kyle let the cat out of the bag on Thornberry on the PM programme. When asked if he'd miss her, he said that the party needed people from all parts of the Labour "landscape", thus admitting that this was just another petty sectarian move by Starmer.

[jondarbyshire-sk]

Milburn's political career started in Newcastle where, after leaving Lancaster university, he helped run a small radical bookshop called "Days of Hope" which was known locally as "Haze of Dope", for some reason (cough).

[sailyousuf]

Starmer picking Jacqui Smith new.higher education minister isn't much improvement on some greedy Tory ministers.

[colindailley]

I like that ~ if you want a friend in politics get a dog ~ lol

[margaretfarrell]

Labour (Blair) more than doubled the prison population last time they were in by introducing new laws that criminalised people unnecessarily. They also brought in private companies.

[captaincatvids]

Clickbait image and title aside, I’m glad and hope it continues that Novara foregrounds things like the first two examples where there is incredibly good news under a Starmer gov.

Yes I’m further left, yes there’s deep bitterness regarding the last 5 years, but now Labour is in power let’s aggressively push and celebrate where there is real transformative change.

[pauljames]

Labour mwy have won a stack of seats, however Smiths appt reveals how thin the takent pool is .

[Ghs--]

I remember when Galloway cut her down to size. Brilliant TV moment.