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Strikes set aside as Starmer skewers Sunak on sleaze at PMQs | John Crace

Strikes set aside as Starmer skewers Sunak on sleaze at PMQs | John Crace

The Labour leader’s attacks over Zahawi and Johnson left Rish! firmly outside his comfort zoneAn estimated half a million people off work. The biggest day of strikes in decades. The country close to a standstill. You might have thought this would have been uppermost in people’s minds at prime minister’s questions. But not so much. Keir Starmer thought better of it. He wasn’t entirely sure what he wanted to say. Labour’s current position has barely progressed from “I wouldn’t have started from there”. Rishi Sunak is even worse. He hasn’t yet worked out that he’s prime minister and could therefore end the strikes. Someone should have a word.Instead, the Labour leader chose to focus on sleaze. Not a bad substitute. And a relatively easy win. First he started with Nadhim Zahawi. Rish! must have hoped he’d heard the last of the former Tory party chair whom he finally got round to sacking last Sunday. Sorry to bring him up again and all that, said Starmer. But in the interests of dotting the

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