Does Rishi Sunak think Keir Starmer is a 'terrorist sympathiser'?
"The facts speak for themselves," the Prime Minister tells Piers Morgan.@piersmorgan | @RishiSunak | #PMandthePM pic.twitter.com/EZqVh14Yod
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Rishi Sunak blasted Sir Keir Starmer this afternoon, telling Piers Morgan the “facts speak for themselves” when asked whether his opposite number is a “terrorist sympathiser”.
Mr Sunak appeared on TalkTV this afternoon, during which he received criticism for staking a ￡1000 bet that flights to Rwanda will have set off ahead of the Election.
Mr Morgan pressed Mr Sunak over the forthcoming proscription of Hizb ut-Tahrir, with the PM using the question as an opportunity to flag Sir Keir Starmer’s previous work representing the group in court.
Mr Sunak said it’s a “question for Keir Starmer: he once upon a time represented Hizb ut-Tahrir”.
“He supported them in resisting proscription elsewhere - that’s who he was on the side of.
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Mr Sunak was asked whether Keir Starmer is a terrorist sympathiser (Image: TalkTV)
“We’re busy trying to ban these people and he was busy trying to represent them!”
Pushed by Mr Morgan on whether Sir Keir Starmer is a “terrorist sympathiser”, Mr Sunak replied: “The facts speak for themselves”.
“There he was, he was their lawyer when they were trying to resist this. We’ve just proscribed them because we think [they’re a terrorist organisation].
“These things speak for people’s values”.
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Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman hit back: “Keir oversaw the first ever prosecution of senior members of Al-Qaeda, the jailing of the airline liquid bomb plotters and the deportation of countless terrorists”.
“The PM can only dream of having such a record of serving his country.”
They added the swipe was “desperate nonsense”.
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Former Tory-turned-ChangeUK-turned-LibDem MP Anna Soubry described the verbal dig as “gutter politics at its worst”.
After announcing the pending ban on membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Mr Sunak used PMQs to claim: “I ban them, he invoices them!”
The ban on membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir came in on 19 January, and joins 79 other proscribed organisations.
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