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Labour leader Keir Starmer
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer was forced to defend his position on the controversial Westminster “spy cops Bill” after being challenged to explain it by a voter in Glasgow today.
Sir Keir, who ordered his party’s MPs to abstain on this month’s third reading of the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, which would allow undercover agents to break the law, was asked by a Scottish student why he had not opposed it.
Human-rights groups have warned that the legislation would allow undercover officers to rape, murder and torture in the name of national security.
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
