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Briefing war spotlights relationships between three of Labour’s most senior figures


Rift said to be driven between Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney even before attacks on Wes Streeting

One way to flush out a leadership challenger, according to Gordon Brown’s one-time enforcer, is to push them over the edge.

In his chronicle of his time at the centre of power, Damian McBride wrote that the New Labour darling David Miliband had a “tendency to treat rebellion like a reluctant bather inching his way into the sea at Skegness”.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/12/labour-briefing-war-keir-starmer-morgan-mcsweeney-wes-streeting

Author : Eleni Courea, Jessica Elgot and Pippa Crerar

Publish date : 2025-11-12 19:14:00

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