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'Captain Hindsight to General Indecision': Johnson and Starmer clash over Labour abstention

Guardian, 02 Dec 2020
Boris Johnson attacked Keir Starmer at prime minister's questions for whipping Labour MPs to abstain in a vote on the government's new Covid tier system, saying: 'Captain Hindsight is rising rapidly up the ranks and has become General Indecision.' Starmer replied with a jab at Johnson for scheduling a £20,000 taxpayer-funded trip to Kabul to avoid the Heathrow third runway vote in 2018

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