Starmer takes aim at 'insults' from Tories

THE Government has told the British people to “eff off”, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has claimed – and he wants voters to be able to return the compliment at a general election.

Sir Keir suggested Andrew Cooper, the defeated Tory Tamworth by-election candidate, had been following Government policy when he was “throwing expletives at struggling families” in a now-deleted social media post.

As Prime Minister Rishi Sunak welcomed two new Labour MPs to the Commons following Tory defeat in the polls, he joked that Alistair Strathern, the new member for Mid Bedfordshire, might “actually support me a little bit more than the last one”, in reference to Nadine Dorries.