In January 2020 the daily mirror included the following few paragraphs in an editorial.
TORIES TO SMEAR
KEIR
A
TALKATIVE Cabinet Minister told me that the Tories “can’t wait to get to work”
on Keir Starmer if the front runner wins Labour’s leadership race.
The Conservatives’ DIRTY TRICKS DEPARTMENT is plotting to smear a decent public servant as a “terrorists friend” in an all out attack”.
We’re going through every decision when Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions,” smirked the Secretary of State. “He won’t know what’s hit him.” Really? I trust that the public is canny enough to separate fact from fiction on this, so these Tory fibs are bound to backfire.
Enemies on the left disgracefully join the mudslinging, inventing false claims that Starmer pressurised Sweden into pursuing Julian Assange.
Starmer was a respected DPP and the working class lad made good who is named Keir after Labour’s founder and should view their malice as a backhanded compliment. They are clearly frightened of him.
First appeared in the Daily Mirror 27-01-2020 Kevin Maguire
Keir Starmer who has taken over the reins of the Labour Party following the party's consultation and democratic election process to find a new leader after the disastrous 2019 general election result has managed over short time he has held his new position to not only to beat off the Tory bully boys but to show the Tories up for what they are.
He has been so successful through the dark months of the pandemic that many are looking at him to lead the UK as most are less than enamored with the Johnson teams diabolical handling of the pandemic, Brexit and international diplomacy.
Starmer has shown all sections of industry and business that he is the person for the job and his broad brush parliamentary team has warmed to his leadership. From the trade unions through to many leading industrialists have shown a high level of support that is trickling down to grass roots voters in a wider number of seats than those lost in the last general election.
Even sceptics such as us, the 'layman's team' believe we can't go on with a Premier who's only link with ordinary members of the population is through the hands of his extremely disparate spin doctor team. We fully believe that Starmer can deliver for the UK in a way that the Tories haven't managed to find during the last decade.
The obvious failings of the nations Johnson experience coupled with a bleak future predicted for striving families at the end of the pandemic and Brexit, with the nation poised for the poverty downturn millions out of work will cause, we may see a kick-start of the process to force an early General election as the PM loses further control of his struggling back benchers. If that scenario pans out, in Starmer we have a party leader with much closer links to the needs of ordinary people and a wider more experienced group of people willing to pull out all the stops to ensure Labour meets their needs positively and rapidly.
