Coutinho ‘Won’t Take Lessons’ From ‘Someone Who Thinks One in a Thousand Women Have a Penis’

Starmer’s comment yesterday that Sunak didn’t “get Britain” got the terse response from No 10: “Rishi Sunak is as British as Keir Starmer”. Nothing like a culture skirmish for the first PMQs of the year…

Asked about whether the comment was a “dog whistle” on Times Radio this morning, energy secretary Claire Coutinho said only Starmer “will know what he’s implying“, adding “if that was the other way round and a Conservative politician said it about a Labour politician of colour, we’d have had no end of their confected outrage“.[…] Read the rest