Max Hastings slams Brexit and is now voting Labour leaving many people quite surprised.
He was the person who gave Boris Johnson his first job in journalism.
LBC shared a clip of his interview and they wrote: ‘”I want to see Starmer as Prime Minister.”Former Editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings, tells
@AndrewMarr9 that the UK deserves a change, and he believes Sir Keir Starmer will be that change.’
Flat Earthers
“The influential Mail columnist revealed his utter dismay with the Tory push to the right – calling the Tory membership a bunch of “Flat Earthers” who are “almost without exception fantasists,” reports The Independent.
Hastings said in an interview with the New European: “I think Sunak’s fate at the back end of this dreadful government is deeply unenviable, but there he is. And, of course, he’s always going to be remembered as the tail ender – the loser.”
“Yet he now looks on Conservatism with dismay – and contempt. In his view, the Tory Party is now little more than a hard-right shell, run by delusional third-raters who mistake personal ambition for leadership, and who have brought Britain to the point of disaster,” writes Jay Elwes in the piece.
Brexit
On the matter of leaving the EU he said “Farage convinced millions of people that the mere act of leaving the EU would at a stroke solve our national difficulties, and probably also make the sun shine every day of the year.”
However, the article ends with a positive (ish) tone when he is asked if the UK will rejoin the EU and he replies: “Oh, I’m sure we will.”
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