I notice in his Exit Interview Keir Starmer says there have only been 3 Labour Majority governments.
I count:
Attlee 1945
Wilson 1964 (increased in 1966 GE) and October 1974 (okay only by 3 but a win's a win)
Blair 1997 (&twice more after that)
That totals 7?
Liar or Nincompoop?
He actually starts the interview by saying there have only been three Labour leaders who have won majority Labour governments (true) but later makes the slightly more broad claim that there have only been three majority Labour governments (untrue). I posted this on the Keir Starmer's Supporters Group on Facebook which is a living embodiment of the Kübler-Ross model. They all got incredibly angry stating that I'm nitpicking, a Trojan Horse or a "Deformer" so I patiently explained that this is a mathematical concept called counting. Reader, they blocked me ... I shall leave them to their mourning. The clearly think I'm trolling them but I'm just a mathematics professional and numerical incongruities - even when created by innocuous mistakes - interest me.
The interview contains at least one other false claim - that the Labour Party was financially bankrupt when Keir took over - but you won't see anyone at the BBC pushing back against any of these...
Most chilling is Starmer talking about removing his predecessor's hands from all the levers of power given he called Jeremy Corbyn a "friend" whilst working under them.
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