Former home secretary says ‘we must not change our leader’ as Tories reel from local and mayoral election resultsLabour triumphs in London and West MidlandsKeir Starmer: It’s time to end the UK’s divisions – Labour is for allFull mayoral and council results for EnglandMark Harper is now being interview by Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC. When it is put to him that people in his party want it to change course, Harper says the government will stick to its plan.In his interview on Sky News Mark Harper, the transport secretary, ducked a question about whether the party should shift to the right, as Suella Braverman is advocating, or to the centre, as Andy Street proposes. (See 7.55am.)What he is talking about there is what I just said. He is talking about you focus on the priorities of the British people, that is what you do.We are going to stick to focusing on the priorities that the prime minister set out, which are the government’s priorities, the prime minister’s priorities but they are also the priorities of the British people. Continue reading…
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2024-05-05 11:29:19
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