Last December, I warned Starmer had lifted lying to a new level, and he wasn’t going to stop. Well, he hasn’t. This week, the truth emerged about the shabby Chagos Islands handover.
Starmer said it would cost £3.4billion. The real figure? £35billion. That’s 10 times more than he claimed and he tried to hide the truth from us. If that doesn’t make your blood boil, here’s another 24 times Starmer was economical with the truth.
1. The 10 pledges con. Starmer won the Labour leadership by promising 10 hard-left policies, from scrapping tuition fees to ending the two-child benefit cap. Once in charge, he dumped the lot (to be fair, that was a good thing).
2. The Winter Fuel betrayal. Before the election, he led pensioners to believe the Winter Fuel Payment was safe. It wasn’t.
3. The social care stitch-up. He also stayed silent on scrapping the £86,000 social care cap, then binned it without warning in a huge blow to the elderly.
4. Waspi women abandoned. Starmer publicly demanded pledged “fair and fast” compensation for millions 1950s women hits by the rising state pension age. He took their votes and dumped them after taking office.
5. Breaking his ‘no tax rises’ vow. During the campaign, he repeatedly swore not to hike taxes on “working people”. Chancellor Rachel Reeves then hiked employer’s National Insurance (NI) by £25billion. The Office for Budget Responsibility calculates that 75% of the cost will be passed onto working people in lower wages and higher prices.
6. Then lying about what he’d said. As I exposed yesterday, the Labour manifesto pledged not to increase NI. Yesterday, the Treasury fiddled that, lyingly claiming Labour had stuck to its promise not to increase employee NI. That after-the-fact lie is so blatant even my blood is boiling now.
7. Betrayed farmers. Starmer promised “certainty” to farmers, then hit them with inheritance tax on agricultural land. Hard-working farming families now face a lifetime of uncertainty.
17. Paying France to fail. Taxpayers send millions to France to “stop the boats”, and the French just watch them leave.
18. Freebie mania. Starmer has accepted more than £100,000 in gifts, including football and concert tickets, more than any other MP.
19. Clothing cover-up. He also failed to declare £5,000 worth of clothes for his wife from donor Lord Alli. It was later repaid, but only after being exposed.
20. Accommodation perks. Took free stays and other benefits from donors, fuelling “Freebiegate” claims.
21. Beergate unanswered. Starmer refuses to give full answers on the lockdown-breach allegations.
22. The Rachel Reeves effect. Dishonesty spreads: Reeves was caught on 12 lies within months of taking office.
23. Rushanara Ali hypocrisy. His housing minister backed reforms to stop landlords evicting tenants then hiking rents. Turns out she’d done it herself.
24. Dishonesty culture – From top to bottom, Labour’s culture of double-dealing rolls on, with Starmer setting the tone from day one.
Our PM says one thing, does another, and thinks we won’t notice. Boris was forced out of Number 10. How is Starmer still there?