Streeting says Labour’s ‘toxic’ briefing culture needs to change and that he doesn’t believe it comes from Starmer – UK politics live

The health secretary said that some of the comments being made about the situation in government were ‘ridiculous’

In his BBC Breakfast interview, Jon Kay asked Wes Streeting if he would ever stand against Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership.

Streeting replied:

I cannot see circumstances in which I would do that to our prime minister.

And, look, the thing I’ve said about the prime minister constantly and consistently is from the moment he became leader of the Labour party, he has had an extremely difficult job.

This silly briefing is water off a duck’s back. We’ve seen this before against other cabinet colleagues. I think our deputy leader, Lucy Powell, was absolutely right about that toxic culture that needs to change. I don’t think these people are speaking for the prime minister. I don’t think this is the sort of behaviour he expects from people who work for him and for the government. So on all that, I’m not worried.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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