Keir Starmer: Butt out and leave Kate alone
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said people should “butt out” and allow the Princess of Wales to have privacy while she recovers from her abdominal surgery. Asked if he feels sorry for Kate, he told Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine: “We should just butt out and leave her alone… That’s not really a political response, it’s a human response, as a dad and a human being.” Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Are you feeling sorry for the Princess of Wales at the moment?
00:03 Yes. I think that we should leave her alone.
00:07 She's had a difficult operation and she deserves privacy.
00:14 Would you advise Kensington Palace to do anything differently?
00:17 No, I mean, I think politicians advising the royal family,
00:21 Kensington Palace, is wrong.
00:23 But I do feel, just it's a guttural thing, really,
00:26 as a human being, that we should just butt out and leave her alone.
00:32 That's not really a political response.
00:36 It's a human response as a dad and as a human being.