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Bangers and cash

UK PM Starmer’s farcical scandals reflect a wider crisis of Western leadership

Nov 19, 2024
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By Chris Stephen

It was the sausages. Of all the blunders of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s first chaotic months in office, nothing lingers like his gaffe while addressing his party conference in a televised speech. There could be no peace in Gaza, he proclaimed, without “the return of the sausages.”

He immediately corrected to “hostages,” but the…

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