Corbyn shows how it’s done – and shows more Labour principle and spine that Starmer and his front bench put together
“IMPRESS directed correction of this article published on The SKWAWKBOX, 22 Feb 2021: In an article first published on 22/2/21 under the headline “Video: Jeremy Corbyn shows Starmer how it’s done – telling Johnson to sack Hancock and end scandal of NHS privatisation”, the article stated that the High Court had ruled that the Secretary of State acted unlawfully in awarding NHS contracts. An IMPRESS ruling found that the article misrepresented the findings of the High Court, and implied that the illegality concerned how and to whom the contacts were awarded and did not make clear that the illegality concerned the Secretary of State’s failure to publish notice of the contracts within the required statutory timeframe.”
Another bizarre ruling by IMPRESS.
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gave his successor an object lesson in opposition today when he did what Keir Starmer had refused to do: demand the resignation of the law-breaking Matt Hancock, after the High Court ruled Hancock’s awards of huge NHS contracts to Tory donors and cronies during the pandemic were unlawful:
And Corbyn seemed to gently rub Starmer’s nose in it, posting out the video of his parliamentary contribution on Facebook and commenting:
Today I asked Boris Johnson to end the scandal of privatisation and outsourcing in our NHS – and to replace the Health Secretary after he was found to have broken the law by failing to reveal contracts worth billions of pounds.
These are questions which people deserve an answer to.
Corbyn is not even currently a Labour MP, after Labour joined Hancock in acting unlawfully – by failing to end the already-unjust withdrawal of the Labour whip last week when the period mandated by the party’s rules expired. Yet in one minute’s intervention he showed more Labour principles and backbone than Starmer’s whole front bench.
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