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Labour are borrowing from the Gary Lineker playbook. They are a party. They are a party of gold hangers and the occasional left-wing striker.

Hanging around the goal mouth, poised to seize any opportunities and to take an easy shot.

But that only works if the ball is in the right half.

This country doesn't need goal hangers, it needs centre forwards.

It needs people that put in the hard work, take tough decisions,

grip a problem and work out how to solve it and create those opportunities.

And that is what we are doing.

And it needs a team captain who knows his own mind has a plan and what colour his

football shirt is labour might be up at half time but the second half is yet to be played you know

i'd really love to think that penny mordant the leader of the house was just riffing and kind of

sporting metaphors were just coming into

her brain as she spoke. But I have a horrible, horrible feeling. That was written. And that was a

carefully scripted attempt to tie in the Labour Party to Gary Lineca and keep the focus on a football commentator.

Yeah, and there's a very important reason why she and others on the Conservative benches might be doing that today.

Because we are hearing that tomorrow, when the rubber hits the road with that meeting between Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron in Paris,

mackerel might end the dreams of helping Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron in Paris, Macrol might end the dreams of helping Rishi Sunac stop the small boats.

So for now, they won't be talking about that.

They won't be talking about small boats.

They won't be talking about the ins and outs of their policy

or whether it breaks international law.

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