{"id":135212,"date":"2023-12-03T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finbestnews.com\/?p=135212"},"modified":"2023-12-03T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T10:39:15","slug":"an-insult-humza-yousaf-rages-at-keir-starmers-praise-of-margaret-thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finbestnews.com\/politics\/an-insult-humza-yousaf-rages-at-keir-starmers-praise-of-margaret-thatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"‘An insult!’ Humza Yousaf rages at Keir Starmer’s praise of Margaret Thatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tory minister reacts to Keir Starmer’s Margaret Thatcher comments<\/h3>\n

Humza Yousaf has hit out at Sir Keir Starmer\u00a0after he praised Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n

The Labour leader said the former Conservative prime minister “sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism”.<\/p>\n

But Mr Yousaf branded Sir Keir’s comments as “an insult” to mining and industrial communities in Scotland.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the Scottish First Minister and SNP leader said: “What Thatcher did to mining and industrial communities was not ‘entrepreneurialism’, it was vandalism.<\/p>\n

“Starmer praising Thatcher is an insult to those communities in Scotland, and across the UK, who still bear the scars of her disastrous policies.”<\/p>\n

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Sir Keir made the remarks in an apparent bid to woo Tory voters ahead of the next general election.<\/p>\n

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, he said: “Every moment of meaningful change in modern British politics begins with the realisation that politics must act in service of the British people, rather than dictating to them.<\/p>\n

“Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism.”<\/p>\n

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