Ed Miliband has insisted he isn’t angling for the top job if Keir Starmer resigns. Speaking on the Today programme, Miliband gave Starmer his backing and claimed he’d already had his leadership ambitions flushed out by his last attempt:
“No, no, no… I support Keir. But I’ve had the, if you like, the inoculation technique against wanting to be Leader of the Labour Party because I was the Leader of the Labour Party, and that was a very successful inoculation.”
He also called for the sacking of those responsible for starting yesterday’s No10 briefing war. He must’ve been furious when his allies were blamed for starting the last anti-Starmer briefing war, then…
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.”