Sir Keir Starmer criticised for crediting Margaret Thatcher’s ‘sense of purpose’
Sir Keir Starmer was accused of trying to “ride on the coattails” of Margaret Thatcher’s success by praising the former prime minister while appealing to Tory voters.
The Labour leader, in a move likely to annoy some on the left of his party, used a Sunday Telegraph opinion piece to praise Conservative Mrs Thatcher for having sought to “drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism”.
He named her alongside former Labour prime ministers and as those leaders in modern British
