'Slippery' Starmer pledged hydrogen bus for inexperienced speech - nevertheless it all went incorrect

Sir Keir’s simply wrapped up his high-profile speech on Labour’s plans to cope with Britain’s power disaster, and it virtually went with no hitch.

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Unfortunately for the Labour chief, one journalist spoiled his huge day when utilizing their query to name the Labour chief out for a significant blunder.

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Ahead of the most important gathering in Edinburgh, journalists had been promised they'd be pushed to the speech on a “hydrogen powered bus”, set to choose the press pack up from Edinburgh Waverly Station.

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The media corps was stunned subsequently to reach in Scotland’s capital and instructed to board an emissions-pumping diesel bus as a substitute.

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The double-decker transport was supplied by Lothian buses, who whereas deploying hydrogen powered coaches on their routes seemingly couldn’t stump one up for Sir Keir’s huge day.

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The Scottish Guardian editor Severin Carrell referred to as the social gathering out, saying whereas he might love Lothian buses, “Keir Starmer’s clean energy strategy it ain’t”.

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35 minutes later and journalists then reported that the bus had grow to be hopelessly misplaced, and driving within the incorrect course.

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A Daily Mail reported ended up having to direct the Labour diesel bus to the venue on the driving force’s behalf.

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Keir Starmer and Labour chief Anas Sarwar had been clearly embarrassed when the Times flagged the issues.

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The Times knowledgeable the Labour leaders in regards to the chaotic day, saying: “This morning journalists were promised a hydrogen bus to bring them down here today - in fact what was waiting for them was a diesel vehicle with a driver who didn’t know where we were going”.

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“Given that and given Labour appears to have spent the last few weeks squabbling over the details of this after what Anas called an ‘unhelpful briefing’ to the Sunday Times a few weeks ago, why should anyone trust Labour to be across the details to make these ambitious plans work.”

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Mr Sarwar tried laughing the chaos off, responding: “There’s a hydrogen bus company here so I’m sure we’ll talk to them and make sure we’re recruiting more hydrogen buses across our public transport infrastructure”.

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Responding to the farce, Tory vice chair Lee Anderson instructed Express.co.uk: “So Sir Slippery’s latest gaffe has backfired as he attempted to appease the green lobby by travelling to the venue on a hydrogen powered bandwagon.

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“It turns out it was a diesel-powered bus with no sat nav.

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"If you are going to jump on every bandwagon that passes at least make sure you know what direction you are travelling in.”

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