But Labour’s centrist leader managed to forget additional word in interviews with both ITV and BBC
Labour leader Keir Starmer has told a gathering of black journalists today that he ‘regrets’ calling the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement ‘a moment’ on Tuesday – and that he meant that it is a ‘defining moment’.
If so, however, he managed not to make himself clear in at least two separate interviews – with BBC News and ITV’s Good Morning Britain:
Starmer was attacked this week by black Labour MPs for his dismissive description of a movement responding to centuries of oppression and discrimination.
Will his explanation satisfy them, Black Lives Matter activists or their supporters? It doesn’t satisfy this one.
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