Rishi Sunak’s weasel words can’t hide the lie: Tories WERE called out on crumbling schools, long ago
Crash: this is what happens when RAAC concrete in a school roof fails.
Rishi Sunak has been caught lying in Prime Minister’s Questions again.
He said Opposition leader Keir Starmer had never raised the issue of crumbling schools with him before PMQs on Wednesday (September 6) – but this is not true.
Here’s what Sunak said:
PM @RishiSunak right to lay out the facts on school buildings.
And to point out that the first time Sir Keir has ever raised RAAC concrete and schools is today.
More here 👇 pic.twitter.com/bAgVV5Hod0
— Greg Hands (@GregHands) September 6, 2023
With hindsight, the Tories have rushed to claim that Sunak meant Starmer had never mentioned RAAC concrete in schools before Wednesday – you can see it in Greg Hands’s ‘X’ post above, and in Michele Donelan’s response to Kate Garraway, below:
Kate Garaway, "Sunak accused Starmer of not raising the subject before, do you acknowledge that he did?"
Michelle Donelan, "He hadn't mentioned the word RAAC itself"
KG, "He said the school buildings were starting to crumble"
MD, "That is not the crucial point here" pic.twitter.com/gMiR48MdsZ
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) September 7, 2023
But these are weasel words. You can hear Sunak’s words for yourself, so you know he didn’t mention RAAC concrete. If he didn’t, then it is misleading of these other Tories to do so afterwards.
It seems that, when Sunak was bandying the words “Captain Hindsight” around, he was pointing in the wrong direction.
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