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11 February 2022

Keir Starmer remains the Tories’ useful idiot

The Labour leader’s attack on Stop the War shows he has learned nothing from the calamities of Blairism.

By Andrew Murray

Keir Starmer has finally made it. Today, on 11 February, he received the accolade of a praiseworthy editorial in the Wall Street Journal, perhaps the most consistently right-wing of Rupert Murdoch’s mouthpieces.

The reason, of course, was the Labour leader’s panegyric to Nato, his full-throated support for the most confrontational approach to resolving the Ukraine-Russia crisis, and his associated attack on the Stop the War Coalition.  

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