So Starmer knew that Sunak would confront him with the £2,000 tax lie and deliberately didn't directly rebut it in the debate despite being in possession of a letter from the Treasury rubbishing the claim, rather allowing him to repeat it over and over again. It made him look weak at the time (I switched off when it became clear that he wasn't going contradict Sunak on it) but the fall-out this morning makes it look like a subtle and rather clever lawyerly ploy, a bit like when he skewered Johnson over Partygate at PMQs.....The Ministerial Code says — and I quote — ‘ministers who knowingly mislead parliament will be expected to offer their resignation’. … I’ll leave it there, for now.”
I'm not convinced that this was his best option, though. Why not just pull the Treasury letter out of your pocket?
