At the Lobby briefing with Starmer’s official spokesman Downing Street furnished hacks with its views on the allegations concerning TV chef Gregg Wallace. The private production company which makes MasterChef has organised an investigation from law firm Lewis Silkin…
Downing Street says the “allegations are deeply concerning” and Lisa Nandy has “sought assurances that there are robust processes in place for complaints.” When it comes to Gregg’s self-defensive comments that “middle-class women of a certain age” are behind complaints against him, No 10 went so far as to offer that they were “deeply inappropriate and misogynistic.” What does this have to do with governing?
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”