Why is Keir Starmer blindly accepting Angela Rayner’s strange behaviour?

WHY is Sir Keir Starmer so incurious about Angela Rayner’s strange behaviour?

His blithe acceptance of her word flies in the face of the evidence made public so far.

As a former Director of Public Prosecutions you’d expect his legal brain to thoroughly interrogate the evidence against “Two Pads” Ange.

Instead, he says he has handed over responsibility for quizzing Rayner to his “team”.

Is the man who wants to be Prime Minister really so relaxed about his deputy potentially breaking the law and then possibly lying about it?

Until Rayner publicly lays out the full facts of her case, we cannot know if she is innocent of doing both.

Back In February she said she was living at her own ex-council house prior to selling it in 2015.

Now she admits she was also living at another property with her husband. So how can her first statement be true?

Failing to show the kind of “honesty and integrity” she has demanded of her political opponents, Rayner has repeatedly tried to play the victim.

But this lingering story is now fast becoming a question of her character and Starmer’s judgment.

At a time when the Shadow Health Secretary is assuming a massive General Election win, Labour is risking adding hypocrisy to arrogance.

Voters hate being taken for granted.

They like being taken for fools even less.

TOWN GALL

MANY of the fatcats in charge of our town halls have presided over mind-bogglingly stupid schemes which have caused near-bankruptcy of the local authorities they profess to run.

Yet their salaries continue to soar — even as the level of service dished out to unfortunate residents plummets.

These shocking levels of reward for staggering failure cannot continue.

Any local authority salary over £100,000 should be signed off by elected councillors.

When things go wrong, there can then at least be some form of accountability.

GARDEN FARCE

THEY’VE wasted your water, squandered your money — and now they’re coming for your garden, too.

Shamefully profligate bosses at Thames Water are telling customers they’ll have to water their blooms less this summer — oh, and be extra-vigilant with the weeding too — if they want to avoid a hosepipe ban.

That’s despite them also wanting to hike bills by 40 per cent.

And after blowing millions of pounds a week on management consultants.

It’s enough to make you want to Percy Thrower up.