On Monday, shortly after he had announced his resignation, Keir Starmer received a text message from Kemi Badenoch.
‘It was actually pretty gracious,’ a Minister revealed to me. ‘She basically said, “Don’t beat yourself up. You’ve been let down and betrayed by the people around you”.’
Yesterday, at Prime Minister’s Questions, the Tory leader decided it was time to deliver a beatdown to Starmer’s colleagues.
In a session that had veteran members of the parliamentary Press gallery letting out audible gasps, she tore into the Chancellor Rachel Reeves (who, at one point, again seemed on the brink of tears), Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson
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