Starmer Backs Morgan McSweeney After Briefing Against Him – Guido Fawkes

Starmer Backs Morgan McSweeney After Briefing Against Him

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A pointed Cabinet readout has appeared in The Times this afternoon:

“In a pointed address to the cabinet on Tuesday morning, the prime minister said he “will not countenance” criticism of Morgan McSweeney… ‘We will learn from our mistakes, but we will not turn in on each other,’ Starmer said. ‘We will not resile from our record of achievement and we will not turn on our staff — including our chief of staff, without whom none of us would be sitting around this cabinet table.’”

Starmer is responding to Guido’s exclusive stories over recent days on the turmoil inside the Downing Street operation. It’s not happy families…

The PM himself freewheeled over the weekend and gave a series of disastrous interviews – including ‘dropping a Baldwin’ – which effectively placed blame for the first year of Labour on his staff. That went down as well as you might expect…

Starmer u-turned on his criticisms of the first year in office at Cabinet too:

“He then reflected on the last year in office, saying we could all rightly look back with a real sense of pride and achievement. The Prime Minister said that because of tough decisions the government had taken, it had a platform to build on, with three trade deals, a spending review that was received well by the public and an industrial strategy received well by businesses both large and small.”

Starmer’s friend and hagiographer Tom Baldwin continues touring the airwaves offering his criticisms of the McSweeney operation. Old hands inside government are briefing Starmer against the current personnel set up. Push and pull inside Downing Street…