The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?

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1 minute ago, whelk said:

Why the fuck has Starmer gone out of his to say Jim Ratcliffe should apologise? He can say what he wants

Yep. More poor judgement. Little petulant shot at Davey in PMQ's too. For a bright bloke, he's pretty daft. 

[sadoldgit]

Ratcliffe should apologise… for getting his facts wrong. The population hasn’t grown by 12 million from 2020 to 2025. The figure is 2.7 million.

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2 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

Ratcliffe should apologise… for getting his facts wrong. The population hasn’t grown by 12 million from 2020 to 2025. The figure is 2.7 million.

From Beeb...

" I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people."

However, data from the Office for National Statistics estimates, external that the UK's population in mid-2025 was 69.4 million, compared with 66.7 million in mid-2020.

So, he's not far off the current population. He's out a fair bit on 2020. But would only have to go back a bit to make the same points.

Considering all the other, far more objectionable things he said, calling him out on the figures seems odd.

I'd have thought Starmer would be better served trying to recall how many others with links to child abuse he's endorsed, rather than try and deflect onto someone sharing his views.