It must be pure coincidence that, since Sir Keir Starmer announced that he planned to outlaw the non-dom tax status enjoyed by the Daily Mail proprietor Lord Rothermere, his tabloid has intensified its attacks on the Labour leader.
Now that its obsessive Beergate campaign has been all but forgotten, the emphasis has switched to portraying Starmer as the leader of “the Remainer counter-revolution”, who will stop at nothing to bring down Johnson and halt his noble Brexit crusade. It ran a hysterical but utterly bewildering op-ed piece on Saturday that spoke about how the country had just witnessed “the emergence of the most dangerous threat to Britain’s prosperity, democracy and independence since the defeat three years ago of that absurd crank Jeremy Corbyn”.
It went on to lurch around like a drunken sailor, attempting to land blows on “treacherous” Tories like Tobias Ellwood, Labour’s David Miliband and Lord Mandelson, Emily Maitlis, civil servants in general, the BBC, ITV, Sky News and Channel 4 etc etc before saying Starmer was “leading the charge”.
The Mail pays its own stable of comment writers well but, tellingly, it found it necessary to bring in a freelance journalist – one Daniel Johnson (no relation) – to write this particular rant.
The Daily Mail take aim at Starmer
The paper increased their attacks on the Labour leader after he said he planned to outlaw the non-dom tax status
