THE prime minister has told former transport secretary Louise Haigh if she wanted to get a criminal record for fraud then she could have simply fare-dodged.
Starmer admitted he ‘cannot believe the idiocy’ of fraudulently keeping a company phone when there were petty crimes involving transport ‘that are of a piece with your brief’.
He continued: “What if you’d been caught incorrectly using a railcard which wasn’t valid before 10am, and convicted for that? That would have been very much on-brand.
“Or mugged in the station then fined £500 by Transport for London because you didn’t tap your Oyster card on the way out? A sympathetic story like that would have justified any amount of rail reform.
“I’d have been happy with a simple, honest, hiding in the toilet between Glasgow and London. A crime our Red Wall voters would have identified with.
“But no, you’ve besmirched this government for nothing more than a pathetic attempt to keep a work-issued Motorola Moto G so you could trade it in for credit at CeX. Get out of my office. And that hair’s not natural.”
Starmer added: “I’m even more furious about this now than I was four years ago, when I found out but the press didn’t know. That’s how deeply moral a leader I am.”
