Senior Labour Party figure Ed Miliband has called for the party to leave behind party tensions after leader Keir Starmer personally said sorry to Health Secretary Wes Streeting MP over damaging briefings coming from Downing Street.
The internal unrest started after reports circulated about hostile background comments from the Prime Minister's team targeting the Health Secretary. Although early efforts to dismiss the situation, the conversation between Starmer and the health minister reportedly followed a different direction.
Starmer expressed regret to Streeting, reporters have been informed. The discussion was brief, and they did not talk about the chief of staff, whom Starmer is now under pressure to dismiss.
In his morning broadcast interviews, Ed Miliband emphasized the need for the party to direct attention on country-wide issues rather than internal divisions.
Clearly, I think the media briefing has been damaging, without doubt.
But my advice to the Labour members today is quite simple, which is we need to focus on the country, not ourselves.
We were given a historic election win last summer, a historic opportunity to change our nation. And we have a major obligation.
In other news, official figures showed the UK economic performance grew by just 0.1% in the July-September period, with the production industry particularly affected by the recent Jaguar Land Rover hack.
