Sunak and Starmer Suffer

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Neither the prime minister or opposition leader have had a good week. Rishi Sunak has been shown to be leaden-footed on a couple of occasions, including a terrible incident in which he made a trans "joke" in front of the mother of murdered trans girl Brianna Ghey in the House of Commons.
Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer is facing a huge backlash as his party rows back on its £28 billion a year green commitments. The move demonstrates many of the things people don't like about the Labour leader and co-hosts Charlotte Henry and Emma Burnell discuss it all.

• Uproar over Rishi Sunak’s crass trans jibe as Brianna Ghey’s mother visits Commons - Independent
• ‘Not a betting person’: Rishi Sunak rows back on £1,000 Rwanda bet - Guardian
• What happened in Rishi Sunak's disappearing Topjaw interview - Evening Standard
• UK's Labour Party expected to scale back $35 billion green spending pledge - Reuters
• Charlotte Henry on Threads
• Charlotte Henry's newsletter, The Addition
• Emma Burnell on Twitter
• Emma Burnell's newsletter, Hard Thinking on the Soft Left
• House of Comments on Twitter

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