Labour leader Keir Starmer to attack Boris Johnson as 'branch of entertainment industry'

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Keir Starmer will step up his attack on Boris Johnson in a speech later by dismissing the Tory leader for running the country as a branch of the “entertainment industry”.

The Labour leader will play up his own earnest public image in a speech designed to press home his recent polling advantage over the troubled Prime Minister.

In a speech in Birmingham, he will say: “I don’t think politics is a branch of the entertainment industry. I think it’s the serious business of getting things done.” The speech comes after Labour opened up a six-point lead over the Conservatives over the last month as Johnson faced a wave of scandals over covid-rule breaking stemming from a disastrous attempt to change Commons rules to defend one of his MPs from