Labour MP Clive Lewis breaks ranks to criticise monarchist ‘lies’

The concept the British monarchy is an emblem of obligation or sacrifice is “a lie”, Labour MP Clive Lewis has stated.

The previous shadow cupboard minister stated the royal household in actual fact risked nothing for its privileged place and served as a distraction from the UK’s social ills.

His feedback are more likely to enrage Labour chief Keir Starmer, who final week issued orders for MPs to maintain quiet within the wake of Queen Elizabeth’s dying.

In an article for The Guardian newspaper, printed on Saturday, Mr Lewis, a former shadow defence secretary and a veteran of the Afghanistan Struggle, stated the establishment of the royal household offered cowl for politicians.

“It’s a spectacle exalted for exemplifying virtues that ought to be typical in public life and public behaviour,” he wrote.

“Casting such behaviour as distinctive permits the likes of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and the financial elites they characterize to interrupt and exploit the foundations for their very own profit and that of their very slim class curiosity – of which the monarchy is an integral half.”

Steerage issued to Labour MPs by the chief’s workplace this week stated they need to make no remark to the media past giving tribute to the Queen and “droop all campaigning and occasion exercise”.

Criticising the narrative across the monarch’s dying, Mr Lewis added: “Whereas republicans ought to respect the language of ‘obligation’ and ‘sacrifice’ monarchists have so forcefully claimed that the royal household makes on our behalf, we should always not fake that the truth is something apart from a lie.

“That isn’t what monarchy is. It might present a symbolic method for us to recognise different folks’s sacrifice and dedication to society – however the monarchy itself dangers nothing and doesn’t undergo, save for having the lives of the royal household turn out to be the stuff of celeb gossip.

“Via all of it, it stays the spine of an influence construction that traces its roots again to feudalism.”

Labour beneath Sir Keir has held nothing again in its reward for the UK’s hereditary monarchy, with its official Twitter account elevating eyebrows on the political left by this week posting a big “God Save the King” graphic.

Sir Keir, himself a member of the monarch’s privy council and a King’s Counsel, has stated that the Queen “lived alongside us”.

The occasion’s convention is about to go forward as deliberate in Liverpool subsequent week, nevertheless, regardless of the cancellation of the equal Liberal Democrat and TUC gatherings.