Starmer did not know about tweets by 'extremist'
Sir Keir Starmer was unaware of the “abhorrent” views expressed by an alleged Egyptian extremist before he welcomed him to Britain.
It is understood that the Prime Minister was alerted to “extreme” social media posts by Alaa Abd el-Fattah only after they began circulating online. He is understood to consider the content of the posts “abhorrent”.
Sources said Yvette Cooper, the Foreign Secretary, and David Lammy, the Deputy Prime Minister – who also welcomed Mr el-Fattah’s arrival – were equally unaware of the posts.
To glory in a prophetic vision of knowledge covering the earth, is an easier exercise of believing imagination than to see its beginning in newspaper placards, staring at you from the bridge beyond the corn-fields; and it might well happen to most of us dainty people that we were in the thick of the battle of Armageddon without being aware of anything more than the annoyance of a little explosive smoke and struggling on the ground immediately about us.
George Eliot - Daniel Deronda (1876)
2 comments:
It has been said that a week is a long time in politics so it is hardly surprising that a long backstory is ignored in the heat of scoring a political point. Unless you are sniping at Nigel Farage of course - where distance improves the chances of disenchantment.
DJ - it also looks like a possible setup, as if the history of this guy was kept from Starmer and Cooper then leaked.
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