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…
Peter Mandelson has finally said sorry for believing Jeffrey Epstein over the paedophile’s victims. He told BBC Newsnight:
“Yesterday, I did not want to be held responsible for his crimes of which I was ignorant, not indifferent, because of the lies he told me and so many others. I was wrong to believe him following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered. I was never culpable or complicit in his crimes. Like everyone else I learned the actual truth about him after his death. But his victims did know what he was doing, their voices were not heard and I am sorry I was amongst those who believed him over them.”