Leaked email reveals Keir Starmer vetoed Thatcher criticism
Sir Keir Starmer’s top team prevented a shadow minister from criticising Margaret Thatcher, The Independent can reveal.
As the Labour leader faces a backlash for his praise of the former Tory prime minister, a leaked email shows he stopped Sam Tarry, then the party’s shadow minister for transport, from attacking her failed policies in 2021.
Mr Tarry has been romantically linked to deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner, whom she described as her “soulmate” in April this year, but the couple is understood to have separated in the last month.
Mr Tarry from his transport brief in July 2022 for making up policy “on the hoof”, after he gave a series of unauthorised interviews from the picket line. There has long been speculation about Sir Keir and Ms Rayner’s, with the deputy leader of the opposition once describing it as an “arranged marriage”.
