Sunak and integrity: how has that gone?
When he took up the job of prime minister, Sunak promised “integrity, professionalism and accountability,” welcome words after the previous holders’ lack of compassion (May), lack of integrity (Johnson) and lack of any competency (Lettuce Liz): how has that worked out? We’ve found out this week.Setting aside his welshing on the £1,000 bet with Piers Moron (“I’m not a betting man,” he said “it took me by surprise” – let’s hope the Russians don’t see this) and the tasteless attack on Starmer on trans issues as if they weren’t bad enough, I think even worse was his smearing of Starmer in an interview with Moron, in which he said that Starmer was “on the side” of a major Islamist group and suggested he was a “terrorist sympathiser”.What’s the background to this? Before he was Leader of the Labour Party, before he was Director Public Prosecutions and even before he was an MP, Starmer, working as a lawyer, represented the Islamist group Hisb ut-Tahir in a court case (and I hold no brief for them, before someone accuses me of being an Islamist supporter). Discussing this, there came this exchange (quoted from the Telegraph)Mr Morgan then asked: “Do you think he is a terrorist sympathiser?”Mr Sunak responded: “Well I would say let the facts speak for themselves, right?”Sunak doesn’t (or won’t) understand certain basic principles of the law, in particular, that you’re innocent until proved guilty and that you are entitled to legal representation if a case is brought., so he went ahead and accused Starmer of being a terrorist sympathiser. What an utter disgrace the man is!
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