Stop briefing against McSweeney, Starmer tells Cabinet

Morgan McSweeney fights back

In the days after Labour’s 2024 election victory, at an event with Barack Obama’s former strategist David Axelrod, Morgan McSweeney declared that the new government would be “insurgent”. Rather than succumbing to the technocratic inertia that had defined so many others, it would crusade on behalf of working-class voters – those afflicted by injustices, from Hillsborough to the grooming gangs (a matter of moral outrage for McSweeney long before E…

Stop briefing against McSweeney, Starmer tells Cabinet

PM’s chief of staff is under pressure from Labour Left angered by welfare reforms

Starmer Backs Morgan McSweeney After Briefing Against Him

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.[…] Read the rest