Wes Streeting has doubled down on comments that Labour should “get it right the first time” after Kemi used his words to mock Starmer in PMQs yesterday. Thirteen U-turns later…
He told Time Radio:
“…feedback is the breakfast of champions. So if we get something wrong and people tell us that and we think their arguments are convincing, far better that we swallow our pride and get it right and fix it than just soldier on. And, you know, with complete indifference to whether or not we’re making the right decision or the wrong decision. So I don’t have a problem with that. But as I said, in the NHS, we’ve got an initiative called GIRFT, which is Get It Right First Time. And what I said was that ought to be our New Year’s resolution as a government in 2026. Mistakes, we’ve made some. Sure, I dare say we will make some in the future, myself included.”
Not exactly words of confidence in the Labour leadership…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”