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Boris Johnson has slammed the Prime Minister over his response to folks placing up English flags and Union Jacks. He took to Twitter to say that Keir Starmer’s Labour social gathering “doesn’t share their patriotism”.

The former PM wrote within the Daily Mail about his appreciation for these elevating flags, saying he has “nothing against these impromptu displays of national feeling”. Flags began to be put up in public areas over the summer season, hanging them from avenue lamps and signal posts. Though these placing them up say they’re merely a logo of patriotism, others imagine they’re fearmongering instruments of the far-right, used to fire up anti-immigration sentiments and different tensions. Starmer mentioned to The Guardian in September that St George’s flag “represents our diverse country” and that he wouldn’t tolerate folks being “intimidated on our streets because of their background or the colour of their skin”. He additionally informed BBC Radio 5 Live: “I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation.

“I do not assume they need to be devalued and belittled. I believe generally once they’re used purely for divisive functions, really it devalues the flag.”

Johnson mentioned they offer the winter months a “festive, almost jubilee mood”, saying that he informed his youngsters they’re only a solution to say “Hooray for England! Hooray for Britain!”

He added that individuals are placing English and British flags up because the Labour Government can’t be relied on for “simple and uncomplicated patriotism”.

Johnson additionally criticised the Government cancelling the earlier Tory authorities’s plans to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda, at the price of £200,000 per individual, based on Migration Observatory.

He mentioned that Starmer and different “lefty lawyers” see it as some extent of “positive national pride” that the UK authorized system prevents refugees from being despatched dwelling as “it shows we are a cut above other countries – better, more humane”.

The former prime minister completed by saying: “That’s why the flags are still going up; not so much out of pride, but out of despair at not being heard.”