Labour wasn’t prepared for power, says top aide

LABOUR did not do enough to prepare for power in the run-up to the general election, Sir Keir Starmer’s former top aide has said.

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In his first media interview, Morgan McSweeney said he was speaking publicly because he needed to “move on to a new chapter” in his life, after his period as Downing Street chief of staff and as a senior Labour strategist.

Speaking to the BBC’s Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast, Mr McSweeney was asked why he believed Labour had faced so much turmoil in its short two years in office, culminating with his former boss Sir Keir’s resignation as Prime Minister.

The former Labour strategist said: “I think that we didn’t prepare enough for what kind of world we were going to be in.