Sir Keir Starmer on Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday
Sir Keir Starmer was accused of hypocrisy after said Rishi Sunak was too “out of touch” to understand the NHS.
The Labor leader had previously suggested that Mr Sunak, considered the richest resident of Downing Street ever, was not using health care, like most voters.< /p>
Asked about Sunday's Sky's Sophy Ridge performance, Sir Keir said: “I think if the Prime Minister or other Tories saw first hand how our NHS works, they would better understand how damaged it is.”
< p>When asked what he meant, he replied: “I say that he is not aware, that he does not know what is happening in the daily lives of so many millions of people.”
He added: “I mean he's offline. Talk to anyone who is trying to make an appointment with a therapist, this eight-hour call. They know how hard it is, they know that the health service is open. Anyone on the waiting list, anyone who is actually going to the emergency room.”
But Conservative MPs said he was wrong to criticize the prime minister. Luke Hall, vice chairman of the Conservative Party, said: “Sir Keir's hypocrisy knows no bounds. This is the left-handed ivory tower lawyer who has a personal gilded pension, went to private school, and owns acres of land in his home counties.”
Sir Keir has personally been granted pension savings tax relief, exempting him from life savings, which he wants to reintroduce when he became Attorney General in 2008. He insisted that if elected, he would abolish tax breaks on his own pension. /p>
Craig McEnlay, Conservative MP for South Thanet, added: “One of the most enigmatic Bond characters is Scaramanga, the man with the golden gun. Enter Sir Keir, a man with a golden pension. I am not in the market to advise Sir Keir but would suggest that this is an unreliable line of attack, but we are seeing a new regularity in Labor attacks playing with the man and not the ball.”
Former Cabinet Minister Minister David Jones accused Sir Keir of “the way of doing politics in the 1960s, inciting envy”, and said that he was playing a “very cynical game”.
The wealth of the Prime Minister's family, who used private medical care in the past but is now registered with the NHS GP, has come under repeated attack from the opposition in recent times. Sir Keir told the House of Commons last month that Mr Sunak “doesn't use the same public services as the rest of us, or simply doesn't see the damage they have done to our country.”
The latest criticism came from after Labor vowed to step up support for new buyers yesterday by announcing plans to revive private sector targets of building at least 300,000 homes a year.
Mr. Sunak is also reportedly planning to increase support. for new buyers as part of the Conservative election campaign.
The proposals include a relaunch of the Help to Buy scheme, which the Times reported was closed to new bidders last year.
p>Attack ads
Last month, Labor ran an attack ad that read: “Do you think the super-rich deserve a tax loophole more than cancer patients deserve life-saving treatment? Rishi Sunak knows.”
Akshata Murthy, wife of Mr. Sunak and daughter of an Indian billionaire, was previously homeless for tax purposes before terminating the agreement last spring.
Elsewhere in the same interview, Sir Keir insisted that a separate ad featuring Mr. Sunak's face, along with the suggestion that he does not want to jail sex offenders, is not racist. To object to his party's accusations of using racist clichés about courting gangs, he replied: “The vast majority of sex crimes are committed by non-Asians.”
Sir Keir also confirmed that he would change government. appoint the chairman of the BBC through an independent process after Richard Sharp resigned on Friday. Mr Sharpe was found not to have disclosed his involvement in providing an £800,000 loan to Boris Johnson during his appointment process.
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