Bridget Phillipson: ‘She’s got this completely wrong’

Thursday’s local election results were dismal for the government, and have plunged Labour into deep crisis. The party is now intensely divided over whether Keir Starmer can continue to lead, although the prime minister himself has insisted he will not stand down, telling the Observer he wants to take the country through a ‘10-year project of renewal’. Catherine West, MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet, has announced that she intends to trigger a leadership contest if no one else comes forward to challenge Starmer. On Sky News this morning, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told Trevor Phillips that all her colleagues are ‘really hurting’, but West is ‘completely wrong’ to seek a leadership change. Phillips asked if Phillipson is confident that West would be unable to get support from the 81 MPs required to trigger a leadership contest herself. Phillipson said she didn’t think that would happen, and instead called for the government to demonstrate to the party and the nation that ‘this country is moving in the right........

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