Labour must attack; no one will do it for them!

Few could have put it better! Marina Hyde`s assertion that "someone`s got to start asking these questions" soon is right, but the trouble is that there are so many unanswered about Johnson, as well as ones about the number of children he has fathered (It`s no time to pussyfoot around on PM`s children, 29/11/19). As she says, there is no point in Corbyn or Swinson hoping "other people will push the point home" for them. Even if Johnson faced up to a televised session with Andrew Neil, the latter is hardly going to ask him about the antisemitic columns written by Taki and published when Johnson was editor of the Spectator!

     Rather than adopting damage limitation tactics, "trying to save vulnerable heartlands", Labour have to go on the offensive. "Saying the same message everywhere" is clearly not regaining or winning voters in sufficient numbers, but it would be an absolute tragedy if Labour lose without ever challenging the Tory leader on his personal issues. Tories will be immensely relieved if no TV or radio interviewer gets the chance to ask about his lack of  parenting responsibility, his links with Arcuri and the public money he allocated her company, or, of course, his lies.

Corbyn and his team have to turn every question by the media into opportunities to criticise Johnson, but this can be achieved by implication. For instance, by stating how many children he has, how often he sees them, and what they mean to him, the onus is placed on the prime minister to do the same. 

     When the subject of taxation comes up, Corbyn could make public his latest tax return. This would show how he did not have any other interests which gave him financial gain, how he paid all of his taxes in full, with no accountancy tricks to deny the Treasury of much-needed revenue, and, moreover, how he could afford to pay more taxes, as his manifesto proposes. What is being inferred is obvious, and voters will expect at least some comment from Johnson on whether he would be prepared to follow suit.

     Ally all of this to exposing the lies about "getting Brexit done" in a few months, and at least, some voters might have second thoughts. Swinson isn`t wrong about everything!