Sir Keir Starmer is now “more likely” to face a management problem and the briefing battle between Quantity 10 and Wes Streeting could have “pulled the plug” on his time workplace, Harriet Harman has mentioned.
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 significant row sparked by “allies” of the prime minister briefing journalists that he was dealing with a management problem that he would struggle, and named Wes Streeting as a key plotter.
Baroness Harman mentioned 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 prompt Sir Keir may face a management problem if Labour carry out poorly at native, Holyrood, and Senedd elections in Might.
“They have got time to get their act together,” Baroness Harman prompt. “However I feel if there’s a problem after Might, what has occurred this week makes the problem extra seemingly.
“And I think Keir Starmer might well be looking back on this week and thinking that was the thing that pulled the plug.”
Labour MPs have been vocal in expressing their anger with the briefing, and Baroness Harman mentioned even Starmer loyalists are pissed off.
“The faithfuls are losing faith at the moment because all they can see is unforced errors,” she mentioned.
“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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‘Number 10 failed either way’
The Labour peer continued by saying that both the briefing was a critical 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.
