Out and about Starmer could not say he had the Cabinet’s backing. They are depressed or agitating to replace him in private and sullen on broadcast…
Asked “are you confident the cabinet is fully behind you?” Starmer could only say:
“The Cabinet is working really hard on huge amount of issues on what we’re delivering at the moment. We’re preparing for the King’s Speech and all the further measures that we’re going to need to take the country forward and of course the issue we discuss at Cabinet a lot in recent weeks is the war on two fronts. The ongoing war in Ukraine and the developing situation in Iran. What we discuss at Cabinet is the international aspect of that but also the domestic impact in relation to that and the measures that we need to take to ensure that we’re assessing the risks and making sure we’re protecting people in this country from those impacts.”
At the last Cabinet all they discussed was Olly Robbins and Mandelson…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”