'Why is it so hard for the PM to apologise?' The prime minister is under huge pressure to say sorry after he made a jibe about Keir Starmer’s position on gender issues while the mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey watched from the public gallery. “I think if you listen to the actual clip of what was said earlier in that exchange, the prime minister was talking very clearly about Keir Starmer’s numerous flip-flops and U-turns on all kinds of different issues. He mentioned pensions, he mentioned peerages, he mentioned public sector pay - a whole range of different things. “He mentioned Keir Starmer’s flip-flopping on trans issues as one of those, but he was making a point about Keir Starmer’s flip-flopping.”Burley said “that was not how it was taken by the family” and added: “I’ve made mistakes and had to apologise, you’ve made mistakes and wanted to apologise.

Source: Huffington Post February 08, 2024 08:55 UTC