DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Keir Starmer's duplicity is wearing very thin
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It's often said you can tell when a politician is lying because his or her lips move. This old joke reflects the public’s perception that our elected representatives are forever breaking their promises. The trouble is, Sir Keir Starmer seems to regard it not as a wisecrack, but as an instruction to be faithfully obeyed.
![[WASPI campaigners stage a protest on College Green in Westminster, London, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her Budget in the Houses of Parliament]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/01/93271267-14208199-WASPI_campaigners_stage_a_protest_on_College_Green_in_Westminste-a-77_1734570086907.jpg)
His latest duplicity concerns the plight of 3.8million women who claim they lost thousands of pounds because of bungled increases to the state pension age. In opposition, Labour supported the so-called Waspi women campaign to put right this wrong. As recently as 2022 Sir Keir fumed they had suffered an ‘historic injustice’ and deserved ‘fair and fast’ compensation.
![[It shouldn’t take an economist to know that Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s hikes in employers’ National Insurance, big pay rises to the public sector, and splurge on borrowing and spending would put up prices]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/01/93298397-14208199-It_shouldn_t_take_an_economist_to_know_that_Chancellor_Rachel_Re-a-75_1734570086900.jpg)
But now in No 10, Sir Keir has U-turned and rejected an ombudsman’s recommendation that the affected women should get payouts. Given the fragility of the nation’s finances, the Prime Minister is surely right to decide the £10.5billion bill would be unaffordable.
![[The revelation that an alleged Chinese spy (pictured) had infiltrated the highest echelons of the British establishment should give Ms Reeves pause for thought]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/01/93195409-14208199-The_revelation_that_an_alleged_Chinese_spy_pictured_had_infiltra-a-76_1734570086902.jpg)
That, though, is beside the point. He knew in opposition the cost would be huge, yet still he led voters to believe Labour would write the cheque. His own MPs are now in open revolt against this betrayal. But can they, hand on heart, say they’re surprised?.
Keir Starmer is facing furious backlash after his government announced it would not pay a penny to the ‘WASPI women’. Pictured: Keir Starmer posing with WASPI women campaigners in 2018. WASPI campaigners stage a protest on College Green in Westminster, London, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her Budget in the Houses of Parliament.
