Rayner is saying just what Cabinet is feeling: Streeting

ANGELA Rayner's warnings about the direction of the Labour Party reflect what Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet are thinking, Wes Streeting has suggested.

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The Health Secretary insisted the Government welcomed a “battle of ideas” after the former Deputy Prime Minister said the party was running out of time to deliver change.

In a high-profile intervention last week, Ms Rayner said Labour could not “go through the motions in the face of decline” and also attacked its immigration reforms as “un-British”.

Asked about Ms Rayner’s suggestion that Labour is running out of time, Mr Streeting told Sky News on Wednesday: “We came in with an enormous challenge and a country that is in desperate need of some hope and optimism.