How Boris Johnson is shown up by Keir Starmer – Yorkshire Post Letters

This IS a letter I thought I would never write – it is in praise of Sir Bernard Ingham for his latest column (The Yorkshire Post, August 12).

That praise is for his honesty in his forensic analysis of the Government and its leaders’ handling of so many issues during these past months.

It must be hard for Sir Bernard to witness such disregard of honesty, decency and just plain fair play thrown out by the dictatorial way in which Boris Johnson and his puppet master Dominic Cummings are running the country, and not so slowly losing the respect and trust of ‘True Blue’ Tories such as Sir Bernard himself.

The only man who has acquitted himself well over this unprecedented period is Sir Keir Starmer, who quite rightly, as Sir Bernard points out, is ahead of Mr Johnson in the public’s esteem.

One has only got to witness Mr Johnson’s abysmal and infantile attempts to match and outplay Sir Keir in Prime Minister’s Questions where mendacity, double dealing and nepotism don’t cut the mustard with a man of integrity who has seen and dealt with it all before.

From: Ian Richardson, Railway Street, Beverley.

REGARDLESS of one’s party political preferences, it is hard to contest the view that the Scots have a far better leader for these troubled times than we have with Boris Johnson.

Nicola Sturgeon constantly impresses with her grasp of detail, willingness to take difficult decisions and most notably, to admit when her administration has made mistakes – as she was quick to do over the recent exam results.

Boris Johnson has some political skills, but they are not well suited to these challenging times. One-liners and slogans undoubtedly sway votes, but they are useless in the face of the grim realities that the virus has brought.

It is hard not to feel that this imbalance in leadership will not take the union with Scotland another step closer to dissolution.

From: John Van der Gucht, Cross Hills, Bradford.

LAST Monday night I viewed the final episode of the BBC series on the Iraq war and its aftermath, then switched over to BBC News and the PM’s references to an invasion.

His total lack of empathy, let alone sympathy for what some of these migrants have been through, backed up by the Home Secretary’s hard line approach, spoke volumes.

But with Nigel Farage trying to out-Churchill Boris, they have to keep their right-wing sweet. By the way, who exactly is paying for Farage’s Captain Pugwash antics off Dover?

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