Why isn't Starmer standing up to Johnson over Brexit? | Simon Jenkins

No deal would be a disaster for the British economy. The Labour leader should be doing everything in his power to avert it

Why is the opposition leader, Keir Starmer, being so kind to Boris Johnson over Brexit? In the Commons last week he decorously downplayed the prime minister’s conversion to law-breaking. At the weekend he gently told Telegraph readers it was “wrong” but pleaded for everyone to “stop banging on about Europe”. Tory grandees and backbenchers are left howling for Johnson’s blood ...