Keir Starmer knew the Partygate vomit claims were false in 2023—so why did he repeat them in Parliament again this month? asks Claire Bullivant.
If democracy had a backbone, it would surely shudder at the revelations now tumbling out like skeletons from a long-bolted Westminster cupboard.
The Partygate narrative—the tale spun with Machiavellian precision to unseat the then duly elected Prime Minister Boris Johnson—has taken another seismic blow. And lo! Who should be at the rotten core of this scandal but the infamous Sue Gray, ably assisted by Keir Starmer, the man who styles himself as a beacon of integrity but now appears to be caught red-handed in yet another deception of monumental proportions.
New revelations from Get In, the latest political exposé by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, have laid bare the truth: a central claim in the Gray report—that Downing Street staff were mopping up sick after raucous, lockdown-flouting parties—was patently false. Fabricated. Utter tosh. And Gray herself, the supposedly ‘impartial’ inquisitor of Boris Johnson’s downfall, knew it. Not only that, but she actively intervened to have the very same lie excised from Starmer’s Labour Party conference speech in 2023, lest it come back to bite them.
Why? Because Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary at the time, had already investigated and dismissed the claim as groundless.
So let us ask, in the name of good sense, just how many other festering falsehoods were woven into the Gray report? How many other fibs, distortions, and convenient misinterpretations were peddled to paint Boris Johnson as the arch-villain while those plotting his demise gleefully clinked glasses in private?
Make no mistake: this was a political ambush in broad daylight. A grubby, co-ordinated coup, dressed up as righteous accountability. And it was not just Boris Johnson who was targeted—it was the 14 million people who had cast their votes for him in 2019. The people’s will was subverted by an establishment hell-bent on removing the one leader bold enough to defy convention and deliver Brexit, a man loathed by the leftist mandarins and global elite who believe Britain belongs to them.
And what of Starmer? Ah, Sir Keir—the man whose moral compass seems permanently stuck in the spin cycle. Not only was he the willing beneficiary of Gray’s duplicity—perhaps even its orchestrator—but it appears he has now been caught misleading the House of Commons yet again. As recently as 5th February 2025, in a typically sanctimonious Prime Minister’s Questions performance, Starmer stood at the despatch box and once more regurgitated the falsehood about Downing Street debauchery. He proclaimed:
“What were the Conservatives doing? Bringing suitcases of booze into Downing Street, partying and fighting, vomiting up the walls, leaving the cleaners to remove red wine stains.”
But Keir Starmer knew. He knew as far back as December 2023 that this allegation was demonstrably untrue, that it was a lie planted by his dear friend Sue Gray—the very same Sue Gray who now waltzes through the corridors of Westminster, rewarded with a peerage for her services to the coup. And yet he repeated it, with the smoothness of a seasoned barrister who believes that if he just says it confidently enough, the jury—the British public—won’t notice the sleight of hand.
So we must ask: was this a reckless misleading of the House? Was it an intentional, calculated deception? Or was it, in the starkest terms, a barefaced lie? Any of the above is unbecoming of a Prime Minister. Any of the above should set alarm bells ringing.
(Can I just add, for the record—just in case you’re reading this, Comrade Starmer? Any partying that took place was courtesy of civil servants. Civil servants under Sue Gray’s watch! You can read my article about it here).
This is not just about one falsehood. It is about the integrity of British democracy itself. When unelected bureaucrats conspire with the opposition to oust a sitting Prime Minister, when the supposed gatekeepers of impartiality reveal themselves as partisan hitmen, when Prime Minister Keir Starmer himself indulges in open deception to maintain the lie—what does that say about our system?
The stitch-up is unraveling, and with it, the credibility of those who orchestrated it. Starmer must answer for his deceit. Gray must answer for her role in one of the greatest political scandals in modern history. And the British people—hoodwinked, misled, and insulted—must demand that those responsible for this great conspiracy be held to account.
The truth will out. And when it does, history will not look kindly upon those who played their parts in this wretched farce. They will both go down in the history books as downright villains. Mark my words.
Claire Bullivant
Hat Tip to the brilliant @ShepherdWales on X for highlighting this.
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Concerning, but more concerning is the fact that nobody seems to be inclined or able to do anything about it (other than write articles about it).