SIR Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the Labour party’s problems over Sir Keir Starmer sound like the problems facing Theresa May before she resigned.
Speaking on GB News Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “He’s got confidence in a man who lied and lied and lied. This is absolutely brilliant, but it shows a fundamental lack of judgement, doesn’t it, that most of us have some sense of when people are lying. And though we can get it wrong on occasions, if somebody lies to you once, you don’t believe them again.
“Yet everyone knows that Peter Mandelson’s whole career was built on lies. What he did was debauch British politics through a means of spin that is one of the reasons nobody trusts any of our politicians anymore.
“He has been a canker in British political life for the best part of four decades so Starmer should have known but he had no judgement. Mind you, he never seems to have judgement because one thing you don’t want to hear is that Keir Starmer has confidence in you.
“Because the moment he says it, basically you’re heading towards the guillotine: not in this modern age, a physical guillotine, but one that gets you out of your job.
“Because he had confidence in Mandelson. Then, of course, he had confidence in Mr McSweeney…
“I’ve always been very struck by a book called Eikon Basilike which was written in the voice of Charles I as Charles I was going to the scaffold, and Charles the First said that he thought this was his punishment for letting his close advisor, Thomas Wentworth, go to the scaffold first.
“Leaders who drop their closest advisors never come out of it well. It always means that the end is near and that they will leave without credit or honour because of their failure to be loyal to those who are around them.
“But Starmer has no judgement.
“And there’s one more point that’s worth making. Peter Manderson is not the only person who’s been involved in sleaze scandals, though Mandelson’s is far worse, who Starmer decided to rehabilitate.
“I was listening to the wireless this morning, and I heard the dulcet tones of Jacqui Smith, Baroness Smith of Malvern, famous for the best quality water. And Baroness Smith, you will remember, resigned in 2009 as Home Secretary because she was found to have misdeclared her expenses by the standards commissioner of the House of Commons.
“Starmer, who came into office saying he was the most honest man you’d ever met, whiter than white, a former prosecutor, son of a toolmaker. He was the angelic chorus in person, turned out to promote people who had sleaze as a background.
“And that’s before I get into the convicted fraudster who he made Secretary of State for Transport and the other errors of judgement that he has made: the suits, the dresses, all of it.
“You can’t trust Keir Starmer, the Labour Party is coming to that conclusion. They may have supported him tonight, but tonight it sounds like Theresa May – the last gasp of a government in desperate trouble.”
