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Keir Starmer: “They won’t defend their record because they can’t. They won’t apologise for it because they’d have to admit what we all…”

On the recordJuly 1, 2026
They won’t defend their record because they can’t. They won’t apologise for it because they’d have to admit what we all know is a total failure. They just try to pretend the 14 years they were in power never really happened.
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Keir Starmer
Labour Party

Editor's note · Context

Response to Kemi Badenoch on defense record.

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