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If there’s an artwork to mendacity, the PM hasn’t bothered to grasp it. He lies and lies once more, and there isn’t any artwork in it in any respect. He simply says no matter fits him on the time.

I’ve been operating by way of the PM Keir Starmer’s damaged guarantees, u-turns and pledges, and it is exhausting. If I attempted itemizing all of them right here I’d shortly run out of area.

He began by mendacity to his personal occasion, successful assist for the Labour management with 10 key pledges that included abolishing scholar tuition charges and the two-child profit cap, and nationalising public providers. All shortly dropped.

Having secured the assist of the Corbynite left he stepped up his efforts by mendacity to the remainder of us to win this yr’s normal election.

Starmer led us to consider that Labour would retain the Winter Fuel Payment, and stated nothing about scrapping the £86,000 cap on social care prices for aged and disabled.

He additionally claimed he would “reshape” Labour’s relationships with companies just for chancellor Rachel Reeves to shaft them in her first Budget.

Starmer made a manifesto pledge to not improve taxes on working individuals. Yet the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) reckons 80% of Labour’s employer’s nationwide insurance coverage hike will probably be handed onto employees within the type of decrease wages, the remainder to shoppers by way of increased costs.

This week he was uncovered in an much more blatant mistruth.

While looking for energy, Starmer publicly backed Nineteen Fifties Waspi ladies’s combat for “fair and fast compensation” after the state pension age for girls was hiked by 5 years.

Last week, he dropped them like a stone. As did each different cupboard minister who took the Waspi pledge: Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall and Angela Rayner. Lying is infectious.

In 2023, Starmer lied to farmers, promising a brand new relationship and “certainty”. Instead, he is walloped them with inheritance tax (IHT), bringing households a lifetime of uncertainty.

During the election, Starmer and Reeves pretended to haven’t any data of the £22billion “black hole” within the authorities’s funds till the OBR advised him about it.

But because the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) repeatedly identified, the black gap “was obvious to anyone who dared to look”.

The IFS stated in August that Labour “cannot honestly announce a series of tax rises in the October budget [and] blame them on this hole that she has just discovered”.

Reeves nonetheless introduced the hikes. Just not truthfully.

If I get caught into her evasions and fabrications, I’ll be right here all day. So again to Sir Keir.

He would not appear to have a single viewpoint that he can stick with. He’s flip-flopped on every little thing from EU freedom of motion, to banning outsourcing within the NHS and whether or not ladies have penises (apparently 99.9% do not, however that is topic to vary like each different view he holds).

Starmer has pledged to place human rights on the coronary heart of international coverage, however is now cosying as much as Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

Many on the left defend Starmer by saying former Tory PM Boris Johnson was worse. That’s not an amazing benchmark. Boris has been described as somebody who could not recognise the reality if confronted with it in an id parade.

The identical applies to Sir Keir. The distinction is we knew Boris was a rogue all alongside. Starmer introduced himself as trustworthy and upright, which makes him an abject hypocrite as nicely. He has no disgrace and he is not going to cease.