Keir Starmer brands Boris Johnson Jabba the Hutt at fiery PMQs

Boris Johnson has been likened to Star Wars character Jabba the Hutt at a fiery session of Prime Minister’s Questions.

Labour leader Keir Starmer made the surreal comparison as he accused Mr Johnson of failing to tackle the major issues facing the country, from the cost of living crisis to Brexit.

Referencing Star Wars, Sir Keir said: “He thinks he can perform Jedi mind tricks on the country, these aren’t the droids you’re looking for, no rules were broken, the economy is booming.

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“The problem is the force just isn’t with him, he thinks he’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, the truth is he’s Jabba the Hut.”

Jabba the Hutt is famed in the sci-fi franchise as an overweight, gangster slug.

Sir Keir added: “Last week he stood there and boasted that he would continue to grow the economy, this week it runs out the economy shrank for the second month in a row.

“How does it help Britain to have an ostrich Prime Minister with his head in the sand?”

The Prime Minister responded: “There he goes again, running this country down.

“We’ve got the highest employment, we’ve got lower unemployment than France, Germany, Italy, Canada. We’ve got the highest number of people in payroll jobs.”

He added: “Just in the first five months of this year this country has attracted I think £16 billion of investment in its tech sector, three times as much as Germany, twice as much as France, he should be talking this country up, not running it down.”

Mr Johnson added: “The reason other countries are temporarily moving in is of course because we came out of the pandemic faster than they did because we took the right decisions to come out of lockdown, which he opposed.

“That’s why right now, we have the highest number of people on payroll employment on record.”

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