I thought this was a hoax the first time I saw this story. But apparently not. The man is becoming a parody of himself.
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I think that’s unfair to lawyers, and too fair to Starmer. Man’s a bare-faced liar.
It’s an old line by the late Peter Cook uttered during one of Private Eye’s many libel trials.