(Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty ImagesKeir Starmer is facing a left-wing backlash after he lavished praise on Margaret Thatcher as he attempts to persuade Tory voters to back Labour at the next election. AdvertisementThe Labour leader also said Thatcher, like ex-Labour PMs Tony Blair and Clement Attlee, had brought about “meaningful change” in the UK. Andrew Fisher, a former senior adviser to Jeremy Corbyn when he was Labour leader said Thatcher had “set loose unemployment and inequality” in the country. The North East lost 100,000 manufacturing jobs under Margaret Thatcher, my Dad’s job at ICI included. Thinking of Keir Starmer’s praise for a Margaret Thatcher who turbo-charged inequality, created mass unemployment, flogged public assets on the cheap to her mates and tried to crush trades unions.

Source: Huffington Post December 03, 2023 13:20 UTC