Every Time Labour Slammed Government U-Turns – Guido Fawkes

Every Time Labour Slammed Government U-Turns

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Starmer’s humiliating (second) welfare U-turn last night saw his bill totally gutted in the face of a major rebellion. As co-conspirators will know, it’s not the first (and probably not the last) time Starmer has U-turned on a major flagship policy. Guido thought it a timely moment to revisit all those times Labour frontbenchers tore into the Tories for “incompetence” over U-turns…

• McFadden in 2022: “A screeching u-turn with the whole affair showing how this contest is failing to face up to the country’s challenges.”
• Miliband in 2022: “The fiasco of the Government energy relaunch continues. Now it seems they are u-turning on the u-turn they seemed to be doing on blocking onshore wind, the cheapest power available. If they do it’s all about Tory backbenchers and nothing to do with the national interest.”
• Cooper in 2022: “So the Home Secretary now wants the Government to do a u-turn on a u-turn. Unbelievable. This Government is just spinning round in circles.”
• Starmer in 2020: “Johnson and his Government has lurched from crisis to crisis and U-turn to U-turn. To correct one error, even two, might make sense. But when they’ve notched up 12 U-turns and rising, the only conclusion is serial incompetence.”
• Rayner in 2020: “Staggering from one crisis to the next, U-turn after U-turn, Puerile excuses, Blaming others for their failures, it cannot carry on.” 
• Kendall in 2020: “Instead of preparing for winter, we’ve seen u-turn after u-turn with the Govt failing to get a grip and instead blaming everybody else.”
• Lammy in 2020: “Government by U-turn is the result of a cabinet appointed by loyalty instead of competence. Woeful leadership is making the deepest national crisis of a generation catastrophically worse than it needed to be.”
• Lammy in 2020: “Is it too much to ask for Boris Johnson to get a decision right in this crisis the first time, without needing to U-turn as a result of public pressure? Just once?” 
• Reeves in 2017: “Extraordinary u-turn after shoddy budget announcement. CX now needs to show where £2bn shortfall will be made up.”
• Cooper in 2017: “2017 £2bn u-turn in a week. 2016 £4bn PIP u-turn in 5 days. No wonder they’re abolishing Spring Budgets, they keep ripping them up.” Yesterday saw a £5 billion PIP U-turn in an hour…

Do as I say, not as I do…