UK Deserves Answers About Government 'Flip Flopping' On Russian Oil Sanctions | John
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as posted by the channel“Pretty much everywhere you look, there hasn’t been the execution you’d expect a competent government to deliver.”
Starmer is probably already planning a U-turn, similar to the flip-flopping, changing-mindset approach to other policies, says Labour peer and former defence secretary John Hutton.
John Hutton was speaking to Trevor Phillips on The Times at One. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 1pm–2pm.
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