Ed Miliband Encourages Labour to Focus Forward After Starmer Says Sorry to Wes Streeting for Hostile Briefings
High-ranking Labour Party figure Ed Miliband has urged the party to leave behind party disputes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer directly said sorry to Health Secretary Wes Streeting over hostile media stories originating from Number 10.
Major Events
- Miliband declares the Prime Minister will sack the Downing Street staffer responsible for targeting Streeting if found
- Miliband rules out future leadership ambitions, declaring his past time as Labour leader was the "strongest inoculation" against desiring the position again
- UK economy grew by just 0.1 percent in the third quarter, impacted by the JLR cyber-attack
Background
The political controversy started after reports circulated about hostile briefings from Starmer's team targeting the Health Secretary. Despite early efforts to downplay the situation, the talk between the PM and the health minister apparently took a more serious direction.
The Prime Minister said sorry to Wes Streeting, journalists have been informed. The exchange was short, and they did not discuss the chief of staff, whom the PM is now under growing pressure to remove.
The Energy Secretary's Statement
In his morning broadcast appearances, Miliband highlighted the need for the Labour Party to concentrate on country-wide issues rather than internal divisions.
Clearly, I think the briefing has been unhelpful, certainly.
But my advice to the Labour members today is straightforward, which is we need to concentrate on the country, not our internal matters.
We were given a historic election win last summer, a major opportunity to improve our nation. And we have a major duty.
Economic News
In other news, government figures showed the British economic performance expanded by just 0.1 percent in the July-September period, with the industrial sector particularly impacted by the recent Jaguar Land Rover hack.
Today's Agenda
- Morning: NHS England issues its monthly performance figures
- Morning: Wes Streeting is visiting the Liverpool area
- Morning: Rachel Reeves makes comments to the journalists
- Late morning: Number 10 conducts its daily lobby briefing
- Morning: The Prime Minister highlights plans for the Britain's pioneering small modular reactor plant at Wylfa site on the island of Anglesey
