Sir Keir Starmer has said that Jeremy Corbyn would have made a better prime minister than Boris Johnson.
The Labour leader made the comment in a special BBC Question Time programme in which he was pinned down over his past support for Mr Corbyn.
Sir Keir first refused five times to stand by his comment made in the run up to the 2019 election that Mr Corbyn, his predecessor as Labour leader, would have made a “great prime minister”.
But he eventually said: “He would be a better prime minister… look what we got, Boris Johnson, a man who made massive promises, didn’t keep them, and then had to leave parliament in disgrace.”
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