Sir Keir Starmer is now “more likely” to face a management problem and the briefing struggle between Quantity 10 and Wes Streeting could have “pulled the plug” on his time workplace, Harriet Harman has stated.
However she warned Labour MPs had been left “dismayed” by the “unforced errors coming out of Number 10”.
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Baroness Harman’s feedback come within the wake of a serious row sparked by “allies” of the prime minister briefing journalists that he was going through a management problem that he would combat, and named Wes Streeting as a key plotter.
Baroness Harman stated the state of affairs is “a mess of Number 10’s making”, including: “If the intention was to strengthen Keir and weaken Wes, it has had exactly the opposite effect.”
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It has been advised Sir Keir might face a management problem if Labour carry out poorly at native, Holyrood, and Senedd elections in Could.
“They have got time to get their act together,” Baroness Harman advised. “But I think if there is a challenge after May, what has happened this week makes the challenge more likely.
“And I believe Keir Starmer may properly be trying again on this week and pondering that was the factor that pulled the plug.”
Labour MPs have been vocal in expressing their anger with the briefing, and Baroness Harman stated even Starmer loyalists are pissed off.
“The faithfuls are losing faith at the moment because all they can see is unforced errors,” she stated.
“And also, the golden rule is if you’re going to start some sort of story running, that is risky, you don’t do it on a Tuesday: the day before Prime Minister’s Questions.”
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‘Quantity 10 failed both approach’
The Labour peer continued by saying that both the briefing was a severe plan from Quantity 10 that “went incredibly badly wrong”, or they “failed” to “kill the story”.
“So Number 10 failed either way, because they promoted a story they shouldn’t have been, or failed to stop a story.”
“The prime minister should never be a destabilising force and should never be disloyal to cabinet ministers,” she added.
