Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt has compared Sir Keir Starmer to a crab and accused him of running "Operation Radish" in a bid to convince voters that Labour looks “red on the outside”. Ms Mordaunt said of the recent defections from the Tories to Labour: “What it has exposed is a pattern of behaviour from the Leader of the Opposition.” Report by Jonesia. 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 Whilst I am buoyed up, Mr Speaker, at the news that our odds on retaining Dover have
00:06 actually slightly improved since yesterday.
00:09 True.
00:10 I think it is a personal tragedy for the Honourable Lady for Dover, as it was for the Honourable
00:17 Member for Central Suffolk last week.
00:19 But what it has exposed is a pattern of behaviour from the Leader of the Opposition.
00:24 It is a shame, Mr Speaker, that we are not due an update to Peter Brook's Nature Notes.
00:30 For the decorator crab is a species which covers its surface area with materials to
00:35 disguise its true form, usually selecting sedentary creatures and seaweed.
00:41 The Leader of the Opposition is the decorator crab of these benches, desperate to show that
00:48 he is not really leading the Labour party at all.
00:52 He has channelled Margaret Thatcher, his deputy has praised Boris, he has expelled the Member
00:56 for Islington North with great fanfare—a man who he was campaigning to be Prime Minister
01:00 only moments before—his exterior shell is stuck over with St George's flags, his Gunners
01:06 season ticket and several programmes from the last night of the proms.
01:10 What next?
01:11 A photo-op with a bulldog?
01:13 A lecture on how misunderstood Enoch Powell was?
01:16 Should I ask the whip on duty on the Front Bench if he has checked in recently with the
01:20 Honourable Member for Raleigh and Wickford?
01:25 This is Operation Radish, the concerted effort to convince the British public that while
01:32 the Labour party might look red on the outside, at its heart it isn't really at all.