KEIR Starmer has been panned for dodging the press on a trip to Scotland.
The Prime Minister visited a shipyard in Glasgow on Thursday morning – but failed to take questions from all but one Scottish newspaper.
It is one of a number of occasions where Labour ministers have travelled north of the Border and ducked media scrutiny.
Starmer’s visit comes as his deputy Angela Rayner’s political future hangs in the balance after she admitted on Wednesday that underpaid stamp duty, the English property tax, on her luxury seaside flat in Hove, East Sussex.
She has referred herself to the independent advisor on ministerial standards though Downing Street has given no indication if Rayner (below) will be expected to resign if she is found to have breached the rules.
Starmer’s low-key visit also allows him to minimise scrutiny over the impending Budget, which has been delayed to the last minute, prompting fury from the SNP in Holyrood.
Finance Secretary Shona Robison on Wednesday said that the delay “makes it incredibly difficult for the Scottish Government to undertake the detailed financial planning needed to bring forward our own budget in the usual timescale”.
It appears unlikely the Scottish Government will be able to set out its Budget before Christmas.
His Chancellor Rachel Reeves is preparing for what is expected to be a deeply unpopular spending announcement on November 26, which is likely to include a range of tax increases and spending cuts as she struggles to get a grip on Britain’s ailing public finances and almost stagnant economy.
It was revealed this week that the cost of borrowing had reached its highest level since 1998 and economic growth slowed between April and June – with gross domestic product growing just 0.3% in that period compared with 0.7% in the first three months of the year.
>The Prime Minister visited a shipyard in Glasgow on Thursday morning – but failed to take questions from all but one Scottish newspaper.
Lol the National is just upset he didn’t speak to them
Shitebag
He never hung the saltire from his mantlepiece. He’s always seen himself as the English Prime Minister of England. Which is true. He should have arranged a State Visit
Fair enough a one off but this is a regular occurrence now with different UK Labour ministers all refusing to deal with the Scottish press.
I get they’re probably scared to say anything for fear of putting their foot in it for next year’s election, but it’s an awful look for Labour.
So he did take a question from the Scottish Press, The National are just upset he didn’t take a question from them.
Standard fare from The National though. A trumped up sense of importance with a readership of a couple thousand SNP supporters.
I did think we’d see the end of The National as a valid news source after their hard hitting piece on /r/Scotland, but apparently people like OP still think they have credibility.
so really he just didn’t want to talk to Scottish pravda? i don’t blame him
So they didn’t let them ask a question, so they’re in the huff, and pulling the cringey faux nationalism card. Honestly its embarrassing.
Saft
He hates the Scots
> And on foreign affairs, the Government has failed to prevent the genocide against the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli state.
I don’t know why people think the UK has any sort of strong relevance to Palestine or strong influence over Israel. We don’t have a particularly strong relationship with Israel and never really have, we don’t really send them arms, how exactly do people expect the UK to intervene? It’s not like you can suggest we should invade Israel – we would unironically probably lose that war.
The fucker wss at BAE yesterday. Hiding where nobody will find him.
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KEIR Starmer has been panned for dodging the press on a trip to Scotland.
The Prime Minister visited a shipyard in Glasgow on Thursday morning – but failed to take questions from all but one Scottish newspaper.
It is one of a number of occasions where Labour ministers have travelled north of the Border and ducked media scrutiny.
Starmer’s visit comes as his deputy Angela Rayner’s political future hangs in the balance after she admitted on Wednesday that underpaid stamp duty, the English property tax, on her luxury seaside flat in Hove, East Sussex.
She has referred herself to the independent advisor on ministerial standards though Downing Street has given no indication if Rayner (below) will be expected to resign if she is found to have breached the rules.
Starmer’s low-key visit also allows him to minimise scrutiny over the impending Budget, which has been delayed to the last minute, prompting fury from the SNP in Holyrood.
Finance Secretary Shona Robison on Wednesday said that the delay “makes it incredibly difficult for the Scottish Government to undertake the detailed financial planning needed to bring forward our own budget in the usual timescale”.
It appears unlikely the Scottish Government will be able to set out its Budget before Christmas.
His Chancellor Rachel Reeves is preparing for what is expected to be a deeply unpopular spending announcement on November 26, which is likely to include a range of tax increases and spending cuts as she struggles to get a grip on Britain’s ailing public finances and almost stagnant economy.
It was revealed this week that the cost of borrowing had reached its highest level since 1998 and economic growth slowed between April and June – with gross domestic product growing just 0.3% in that period compared with 0.7% in the first three months of the year.
>The Prime Minister visited a shipyard in Glasgow on Thursday morning – but failed to take questions from all but one Scottish newspaper.
Lol the National is just upset he didn’t speak to them
Shitebag
He never hung the saltire from his mantlepiece. He’s always seen himself as the English Prime Minister of England. Which is true. He should have arranged a State Visit
Fair enough a one off but this is a regular occurrence now with different UK Labour ministers all refusing to deal with the Scottish press.
I get they’re probably scared to say anything for fear of putting their foot in it for next year’s election, but it’s an awful look for Labour.
So he did take a question from the Scottish Press, The National are just upset he didn’t take a question from them.
Standard fare from The National though. A trumped up sense of importance with a readership of a couple thousand SNP supporters.
I did think we’d see the end of The National as a valid news source after their hard hitting piece on /r/Scotland, but apparently people like OP still think they have credibility.
so really he just didn’t want to talk to Scottish pravda? i don’t blame him
So they didn’t let them ask a question, so they’re in the huff, and pulling the cringey faux nationalism card. Honestly its embarrassing.
Saft
He hates the Scots
> And on foreign affairs, the Government has failed to prevent the genocide against the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli state.
I don’t know why people think the UK has any sort of strong relevance to Palestine or strong influence over Israel. We don’t have a particularly strong relationship with Israel and never really have, we don’t really send them arms, how exactly do people expect the UK to intervene? It’s not like you can suggest we should invade Israel – we would unironically probably lose that war.
The fucker wss at BAE yesterday. Hiding where nobody will find him.
What Scottish press? All froreign owned
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