All is not well in the Labour party. After a rather bruising set of local elections for Sir Keir Starmer, now the PM’s advisers are under scrutiny after ex-transport minister Louise Haigh accused No. 10 of briefing against women. Speaking to the Beeb’s Victoria Derbyshire on Newsnight, Haigh admitted she was ‘really fed up’ of reading negative briefings about her female colleagues in the papers, adding: ‘The kind of briefing that undermines them on a daily basis is not is not supporting the Prime Minister, and it’s not supporting the Labour government.’ Oo er.
Nodding to last week’s local election losses, Haigh raged:
I was really angry at the weekend to see the response to the electoral defeat that we had suffered at the hands of Reform to be that we should sack two female cabinet ministers and two of our best communicators with those voters that we need to communicate with most. I think that does reveal that there are people working in No. 10 that are more interested in those kind of politics than they are about running the country.
Talk about pulling no punches, eh? When Derbyshire quizzed her: ‘What are you saying about that pattern of briefing then? Sexist. Misogynistic. What’s going on?’ Haigh simply responded: ‘All of the above.’ Shots fired!
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