Ed Miliband Urges Labour to Focus Forward Following Keir Starmer Apologises to Streeting for Hostile Media Leaks
Senior Labour Party figure Ed Miliband has urged the party to put aside party disputes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer personally apologised to health minister Wes Streeting MP over hostile media stories linked to the Prime Minister's office.
Major Updates
- Ed Miliband states Starmer will fire the Downing Street staffer responsible for targeting Wes Streeting if found
- Miliband dismisses any leadership ambitions, declaring his past time as Labour leader was the "best inoculation" against seeking the position again
- British economy grew by just 0.1% in the third quarter, hit by the JLR security breach
Situation
The political controversy erupted after media stories surfaced about negative background comments from the Prime Minister's supporters targeting Streeting. Despite initial efforts to dismiss the situation, the talk between Starmer and Streeting according to sources took a more serious direction.
Starmer apologised to Streeting, journalists have been advised. The conversation was concise, and they did not talk about Morgan McSweeney, whom Starmer is now under pressure to dismiss.
Miliband's Statement
In his early morning broadcast interviews, Miliband highlighted the need for the party to concentrate on country-wide matters rather than internal conflicts.
Clearly, I think the media briefing has been unhelpful, certainly.
But my message to the Labour party today is quite simple, which is we need to concentrate on the nation, not each other.
We were given a historic victory last summer, a major opportunity to transform our country. And we have a historic duty.
Growth News
Meanwhile, government statistics indicated the UK economy increased by just 0.1 percent in the third quarter, with the production industry especially impacted by the recent Jaguar Land Rover cyber-attack.
The Day's Agenda
- Morning: NHS England releases its latest statistics
- Today: Wes Streeting visits Liverpool
- Morning: The Chancellor makes comments to the press
- 11.30am: Downing Street conducts its daily media briefing
- Morning: The Prime Minister announces plans for the UK's first small modular reactor project at Wylfa on the island of Anglesey
