Ed Miliband has said that if Starmer finds the No.10 source behind the Wes Streeting briefing row, he will sack them. Speaking to Sky News, Miliband said:
“Well, look, I’ve talked to Keir before about this kind of briefing that happens. And as he always says, if he finds the person, he’ll get rid of them. And I absolutely believe he would do that.”
Miliband declined to echo Streeting’s description of Downing Street’s culture as “toxic”, though he did rule out any return to the leadership. Meanwhile attention is now turning to Morgan McSweeney, who’s being blamed by some for the chaotic briefings. No10 insists the PM retains “full confidence” in him. A “united team”…
Local government minister Alison McGovern told LBC that the BBC should apologise to Trump:
“If they’ve made an editorial mistake, then they should apologise. And, more broadly, I think if they’ve made errors, I think the answer to that is better quality journalism, and to invest in that journalism so that we can have the standard of programmes we all want from the BBC.”