Downing Street spin doctors were confident they had seen off Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham, but their aggressive briefing backfired. Streeting resigned from the Cabinet, and a deal was made between him and Andy Burnham for a long timetable for a contest that would give Andy the time and space to come back.
By noon yesterday, Downing Street spin doctors were becoming increasingly confident they had seen off Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham . However, five hours later, that aggressive, hubristic briefing had blown up in their faces.
Streeting had resigned from the Cabinet and put rocket boosters under the anti-Starmer insurgency. And Makerfield MP Josh Simons had confirmed he is standing down to give Burnham a potential path back to the Commons. Streeting's resignation missive to the Prime Minister was an elegant but brutal evisceration of Starmer's record. A couple of minutes after the letter was published, I received a call from a minister who confirmed that Wes and Andy had done a deal.
They've both agreed to a long timetable for a contest that gives Andy the time and space to come back. It's over
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