Starmer vows to reflect on welfare bill fiasco after ‘tough last few days’ – UK politics live
Prime minister says the government ‘will come through it stronger’
Keir Starmer admitted in his BBC interview No 10 “didn’t get the process right” in handling the government’s controversial welfare bill this week, Alexandra Topping reports.
Keir Starmer has told Virgin Radio that the reasons Rachel Reeves was tearful in the Commons yesterday was “purely personal” and “nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with the ups and downs of this week, or her relationship with anybody in the Labour party”.
She’s fine … She’s very resilient and strong is Rachel. She’s driven through lots of change in the Labour party. We’ve had to change the Labour party, fought an election together. I’ve seen her resilience first hand. I admire it. She’s a really powerful woman, and she’s also very widely respected.
The sort of messages of concern that have come in over the last 24 hours or so show the great affection and respect in which she is held.
We [politicians] are humans in the end and sometimes personal things are obviously on our minds and, in this case, that was the situation ..
There are moments that catch us off guard and if you’re in front of a camera for large periods of your life, unfortunately, that could be caught on camera in a way, if it had been anybody else at work, it would have not really been noticed.
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Prime minister says the government ‘will come through it stronger’
Keir Starmer admitted in his BBC interview No 10 “didn’t get the process right” in handling the government’s controversial welfare bill this week, Alexandra Topping reports.
Keir Starmer has told Virgin Radio that the reasons Rachel Reeves was tearful in the Commons yesterday was “purely personal” and “nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with the ups and downs of this week, or her relationship with anybody in the Labour party”.
She’s fine … She’s very resilient and strong is Rachel. She’s driven through lots of change in the Labour party. We’ve had to change the Labour party, fought an election together. I’ve seen her resilience first hand. I admire it. She’s a really powerful woman, and she’s also very widely respected.
The sort of messages of concern that have come in over the last 24 hours or so show the great affection and respect in which she is held.
We [politicians] are humans in the end and sometimes personal things are obviously on our minds and, in this case, that was the situation ..
There are moments that catch us off guard and if you’re in front of a camera for large periods of your life, unfortunately, that could be caught on camera in a way, if it had been anybody else at work, it would have not really been noticed.
Continue reading...
By Andrew Sparrow
Starmer vows to reflect on welfare bill fiasco after ‘tough last few days’ – UK politics live to Continue reading...
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