Minister calls for party’s briefing wars to end as MPs rally around ‘liberated’ prime minister after speech in parliament
Ed Miliband has said Keir Starmer must lead a “moment of change” for the government, saying Labour needs to end the briefing wars against its own members and show “a greater clarity of purpose”.
After a day of turmoil where the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, called for Starmer to resign, Labour MPs rallied around the prime minister following a speech in parliament.
Miliband described Starmer as “liberated”, 24 hours after the departure of the PM’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney. Miliband told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he hoped that the truest version of Starmer would now show itself to the country.
“I’m one of his closest friends in politics. I have had a frustration, that the private Keir we know hasn’t been sufficiently on display to the public,” he said.
