Earlier on at PMQs Boris Johnson claimed that Keir Starmer has voted 48 times to “take us back” into the EU, but this isn't correct. The PM has said this several times before, and our requests for him to correct the record have gone unanswered.
, this is not true. The claim appears to be based on an analysis of Mr Starmer’s participation in 48 votes in the House of Commons between 2017 and 2020. But while these votes were all related in some way to Brexit and saw Mr Starmer repeatedly oppose the Government, only a handful were directly about whether Britain should be part of the EU, and all but three took place before the UK even left the EU.
Full Fact wrote to 10 Downing Street in February to ask the Prime Minister to correct the record, but did not receive a response. by the Conservative Party on social media, that Mr Starmer “voted to block Brexit 48 times”. However crucially the Conservative Party stopped short of explicitly claiming that Mr Starmer voted to “take us back” into the EU.
When we asked 10 Downing Street back in February what Mr Johnson’s claim was based on, it told us at the time this was a “political question” and referred us to Conservative Campaign Headquarters . CCHQ sent us a list of 48 votes and said: “Through directly voting against, voting in favour of wrecking amendments and voting against eleven of the Statutory Instruments required for delivering Brexit, Keir Starmer voted to hinder our exit from the EU at least 48 times.
The 48 figure has appeared in the media at least twice. It was the subject of an article by Camilla Tominey published by the
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