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Someone has re-written the Daily Mail’s Starmer smear

The Daily Mail’s ‘Man of the people’ leader has been hilariously re-written after it was found out to be a gross misrepresentation of the true story.

Keir Starmer became the target of a misjudged smear today after the right wing newspaper uncovered that he owns “seven acres of land in Surrey worth up to £10 million”.

The front-page story reveals that in 1996 he bought a plot of land behind his parents’ house which if it were sold with planning permission it doesn’t have could make him a millionaire.

But they forgot to mention that the land was purchased for his late disabled mother who used it to house rescued donkeys.

Reaction

People were quick to react to the news on social media, with Nadine Shah pointing out that it seemed to be a perverse attempt to make Starmer look bad.

Others were quick to note hat compared to the Russia report and 60,000 deaths from the government mismanagement of a health crisis it is hardly a scandal.

Different spin

But Felicity Hannah hilariously went one step further by putting an alternative spin on the story.

Re-nosing the news piece, she replaced the intro to sensationalise the fact that Sir Keir has been using the land to RESCUE DONKEYS.

She also used the piece to discredit everything the “Made-Up on Sunday” had decided to run with.

Read the revised piece in full below:

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Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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