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PMQs: Pantomime Starmer wasted his chance

20 January 2022

2:45 AM

20 January 2022

2:45 AM

Does Boris lie? Well, yes, of course, he’s a politician. That’s the standard response to the honesty question. And in some circumstances, we forgive MPs for telling whoppers. Christian Wakeford, elected as a Tory for Bury South, has just joined the Labour party and effectively admitted that he told a pack of lies to voters at the 2019 election.

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