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Sir Keir Starmer meets with Qatar's dictator Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
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SIR KEIR STARMER was forced to defend taking a private jet paid for by Qatar today after attacking PM Rishi Sunak’s “private jet habit.”
The Labour leader, along with three members of staff, availed himself of the aircraft between the Dubai Cop28 climate conference and Doha to meet the Emir of Qatar, parliamentary records show.
He insisted there is a “distinction” between his freebie flight, worth more than £25,000, and using private jets to travel within England where there were rail alternatives.
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STEPHEN ARNELL examines whether Starmer is a canny strategist playing a longer game or heading for MacDonald’s Great Betrayal, tracing parallels between today’s rightward drift and the 1931 crisis