Michael Gove launches savage assault on Keir Starmer with brutal Tony Blair jibe
Michael Gove launched a brutal assault on Sir Keir Starmer as he insisted Labour doesn’t have the following normal election within the bag.
The Levelling Up Secretary in contrast the Labour chief to Sir Tony Blair, after the pair took half in a joint occasion earlier this week.
The Cabinet minister stated the previous and present Labour chief have been like “a superstar and someone from a shabby tribute band”.
Mr Gove advised The Telegraph: “Seeing Starmer and Blair on stage together this – I know this is a pretentious, Shakespearean quote – is like Hyperion and a satyr.
“It is sort of a celebrity and somebody from a shabby tribute band. It is like seeing Mick Jagger and somebody from the Counterfeit Stones, because it have been.”
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The senior Conservative insisted Sir Keir isn’t as standard as Sir Tony, who led Labour from 1994 to 2007 and received a landslide normal election victory in 1997.
He stated: “The British public in 1992 noticed Neil Kinnock… hadn’t sealed the deal, they noticed him assume that he was at that Sheffield rally heading in the right direction for Number 10, they usually stated, no.
“In the same way I do not believe that the British public thinks that Keir Starmer is ready to be Prime Minister. It’s nothing like what it was in the 1990s.”
Sir Keir took half in a dialog with Sir Tony Blair on the Future of Britain convention final Tuesday.
It marked the primary time that they had shared a platform with each other because the Opposition chief was elected in 2020.
The former prime minister praised the Labour chief for the “amazing” work he had finished to carry Labour “from the brink of extinction” in 2019 to the “brink of Government”.
Sir Tony stated the financial image Labour might probably inherit after a possible normal election subsequent 12 months was way more stark than in 1997 when he received a landslide.
The ex-Labour chief, whose world institute organised the convention, stated: “I think we both agree that 1997 is very different to 2024.
“In 1997, we had plenty of issues to do, however alternatively, we might see that development had stabilised and we might stay up for over 2 p.c development. What you’ll inherit subsequent 12 months, it’s grim.”
Meanwhile, Sir Keir said that the “in-tray of the following Government can be like no different”.
Repurposing a slogan used by Sir Tony and New Labour, he said: “We want three issues: development, development, development.”
It comes as Labour overturned a Tory majority of round 20,000 to swipe Selby and Ainsty in Thursday’s by-election.
But Sir Keir’s occasion did not take Boris Johnson’s former seat in Uxbridge and South Ruislip which has extensively been blamed on London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s growth of the extremely low emission zone (ULEZ).