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Starmer Personally Texted Owen Jones Complaining About His Critical Tweets and Columns
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The ‘Hellfire’ Awaiting Andy Burnham at 10 Downing Street
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"He used to text me, you know, he used to literally text me with these extremely thin-skinned not just about my Guardian columns but about like tweets. I just thought to myself, he was Leader of the Opposition at the time, reading your tweets, getting upset."
Owen Jones reveals that Keir Starmer directly messaged him multiple times as Leader of the Opposition to complain about Jones's criticism, including tweets. Jones describes Starmer as "thin-skinned" and recounts Starmer saying "you are better than this" in one exchange. Jones also claims Starmer promised him there would be no purge of the left, calling it about "taking on antisemitism," before launching what Jones terms "the biggest assault on the Labour left in the history of the Labour Party."
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