Anas Sarwar humiliated in major Sky News mistake at FMQs

It is increasingly difficult to distinguish between Labor and the Conservatives.

Keir Starmer is taking his party ever further to the right, as proven by the arrival of far-right MP Natalie Elphicke.

Of course, Elphicke was rabid about immigration — and defended her ex-husband to the end, even though he was convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault. Apparently he was simply “attractive and attracted to women.”

Forget all that – and everything else – she is “a good natural fit” for Labor, according to the party chairman.

Elphicke was not even the first Conservative MP to defect to Labor since Easter. Former minister Dan Poulter took the plunge at the end of April.

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While Starmer is doing a great job of ensuring that Labor is the right party for Tory MPs to join, is it any wonder that some of us are a little confused about which is which?

This certainly appears to have happened to a Sky News journalist, who on Thursday referred to Anas Sarwar as “Scottish Conservative leader”.

Sharing a clip from Prime Minister’s Questions showing Sarwar calling for “new leadership”, Sky News wrote: “Having been at the heart of every SNP failure over the last 17 years, why does John Swinney think the Should Scotland accept more of the same? ?’ – asks Scottish Conservative leader @AnasSarwar.

“@JohnSwinney responds: ‘New management has just arrived’.”

Despite Sarwar’s millionaire past, his opposition to progressive taxation, and his anti-democratic stance on whether the people of Scotland should be allowed to vote for independence, he is not technically a member of the Scottish Conservatives.

But the Jouker can understand why you think he is.

Noticing the slip, SNP MP Steve Bonnar joked that it was a “tiny Freudian slip from Sky News”.

He added: “Labour = Conservative”.

Another user asked: “Did he go through the floor too?”

Sarwar will not need to officially join the conservatives. Starmer pushes Labor so far to the right that they occupy the same political space anyway.