All is not well on the frontbench. Kemi Badenoch asked Starmer whether Rachel Reeves would still be in post till the next election. Starmer refused to back her:
“This [questions] just shows how unserious and irrelevant [the Tories] are.”
As Kemi pointed out, Reeves looks miserable. Chaotic…
Speaking at an IPPR think tank event in London, the Health Secretary compared striking junior doctors to mutinous sailors.
“I feel like we’ve turned the ship, the boat’s going in the right direction, except some of the crew are trying to row in one direction while the rest of us are going in the other. You can’t make progress that way. We are seeing an improving NHS, and we’ve seen improvement despite resident doctors’ strikes, but the fact is, performance would have been better and there would have been more money to invest in staff and services if the BMA hadn’t been undertaking the strike action.”