'For Keir Starmer to go back on his leadership pledge to end NHS outsourcing is morally wrong and politically self-defeating.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11611445/Keir-Starmer-squirms-hes-quizzed-past-pledge-end-outsourcing-NHS.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

The report said major hazards harm those who are already vulnerable the most, and leaving the poorest exposed was 'self-defeating', as a disease can return in a more dangerous form.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11691985/The-world-dangerously-unprepared-pandemic-Red-Cross-warns.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

This suggests in turn that attempts by recent UK governments to champion a single version of Britishness, to buttress what some have termed ‘the precious Union’, are not only doomed to failure but are likely to be self-defeating.”

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23779608.britain-going-end-whimper-not-bang/?ref=rss

This would have been senseless and immediately self-defeating," he wrote.

Source: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-news/boris-johnson-admits-misleading-parliament-26522452