Starmer was a fabricator and a fraud. Good riddance Submitted by Peter Oborne on Fri, 07/17/2026 - 16:08 From attacking Corbyn for political gain, to abandoning the key pledges that got him elected, the UK leader leaves office in disgrace Starmer rose to power by twisting and distorting the truth - and he leaves office in exactly the same fashion (Henry Nicholls/AFP) Off The most serious parliamentary misdemeanour that a minister can commit is to deceive MPs. That is exactly what Keir Starmer did when he answered questions, for his last time as prime minister, on Wednesday.
Exploiting the occasion to justify his record, he told MPs that when he became UK Labour leader, “we had just lost the 2019 election, which nearly broke my party. It was the worst result since 1935, and we were found to be institutionally antisemitic.” This statement contained a serious falsehood. Starmer’s predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, swiftly issued a statement in response: “The prime minister today falsely claimed that Labour was found to be ‘institutionally antisemitic’ under my leadership.
There was no such finding.” (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); It’s not difficult to guess why Starmer levied such a damaging - and false - allegation against Corbyn. He has been driven out of office by parliamentary colleagues who did not like or trust him, and who thought he was useless at his job. It has been a terrible humiliation.
It’s human, natural and entirely forgivable that Starmer should seek to boast of his achievements in office. But it’s despicable to justify those claims by making false insinuations about a former colleague. Ugly questions Starmer repeated the falsehood on his trip to Kyiv on Thursday, telling Sky News that he wished to be remembered “as the person that saved the Labour Party, turned it into a party that could face the public again.” He added: “We were a party that were found to be institutionally antisemitic, that was not fit to actually face the country and the electorate.” A month ago, as part of his mission to restore his reputation by trashing Corbyn, he claimed that he had “inherited a Labour Party that was politically, financially and morally bankrupt”.
Needing to gain the support of Labour's left-wing membership, he presented a pitch that was entirely at variance with the way he subsequently ran the party This was anot…
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