Starmer Uses No10 St George’s Day Reception to Swipe at Reform

Eyebrows were raised yesterday when it emerged Keir Starmer would host a St George’s Day reception in 10 Downing Street. The Labour leader has never gone out of his way to celebrate the day of English patriotism, so it initially seemed like a welcome move…

As it turned out, as reported by The Sun (invited in the hope the paper would provide some soft soap treatment of Sir Keir), the PM used the event to launch a thinly veiled attack on Reform ahead of the local elections: “That flag doesn’t belong to me as Prime Minister, it doesn’t belong to my party, the Labour Party, or to any group or political party.[…] Read the rest