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Return the Sausages — and the Designer Clothes
From gaffes to scandals, new UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer is having quite a month.
Oopsies.
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Of course on one of the most decisive days of Kier Starmer’s career — his first party conference after winning a historic majority — he managed a gaffe so disastrous that I’ve watched it over a dozen times at this point. Mistakenly calling hostages in the Middle East “sausages” has gotta be one of the all-time worst blunders in UK history, right behind the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. I almost feel bad for the guy: