Stop being so coy, Keir!
Posted 7.45pm UK time
The Leader of the Opposition is doing his best not to oppose the Government on vaccine passports, as William Parker writes here.
Starmer was reportedly ‘really angry’ that an interview he gave to the Telegraph last week was headlined on his ‘criticism’ of the idea. He wants the focus to remain on the Tories, knowing that he would buckle under the slightest bit of pressure to actually criticise the Government’s response to Covid (I don’t mean some of the superficial acts we’ve seen at PMQs in recent weeks).
There are a handful of anti-vaccine passport MPs within Labour, but nowhere near enough. One Labour source told the Guardian that the ‘reservations are real’, but mainly around the ‘digital infrastructure’ of Covid passports, rather than about their implication on liberty. What a joke.
I report on this for Lockdown Sceptics here.
