Nandy hits out at Wes on Kuenssberg:
“I actually think this is just a bit odd… I campaigned for remain, I think it was a mistake… but I don’t really understand why the sudden focus on Europe. We’re already as a government trying to repair in a pragmatic way the enormous damage done by the poor Brexit deal to towns like mine without reopening the circular arguments that we ended up in as a country. And frankly if the answer to all of this was the EU then essentially we’d be saying to people what was going on in 2015 in towns like Wigan was absolutely fine – well I can tell you it wasn’t.”
Josh Simons, who has resigned his seat for Burnham, said:
“This moment is is actually about more than just Keir Starmer or Andy Burnham or Wes Streeting… It’s about a fundamental question for my party … ‘Can they win back the trust of working class people that they’ve been losing for decades?
If Andy wins the by-election, my view is that the different bits of the party should come together behind Andy.”
Lisa Nandy told Laura Kuenssberg about Starmer:
“He’s shown before that he’s up for a fight … he took on the leadership of the Labour Party. People said he wasn’t going to win and he did…
He was then told we wouldn’t be able to get back into a government after our worst election defeat in 100 years. I sincerely doubted after 2019 whether we could do that in one term. He didn’t. I wouldn’t write off the prime minister.”
Speaking to Trevor Phillips Badenoch said:
“Andy Burnham is talking about increasing borrowing. That’s going to hit everybody’s mortgages … you’ll be paying a Burnham premium.”
She also told Times Radio:
“Andy Burnham is someone who twice failed to win the leadership and lost to Jeremy Corbyn. I think he is enjoying a popularity from not having to make any difficult decisions. And the minute he gets the job, he will run into problems.”
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