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And here are a few more lines from it Ed MilibandInterviews this morning.

• Energy minister Miliband rejected suggestions that Keir Starmer would not remain in office for long. When asked about this on BBC Breakfast, he replied: “I don’t agree with that.”

• He told the BBC’s Nick Robinson that Miliband’s call for more “boldness” went “a bit too far” when he said he wanted Labor to be more like Zack Polanski, the Green leader.

Telegram is working a story “Wes Streeting is accused of orchestrating a leadership coup against Sir Keir Starmer,” says today.

The report states that health minister Wes Streeting, who aims to become the next Prime Minister, met with Scottish Labor Party leader Anas Sarwar on Saturday, two days before Sarwar said he wanted Keir Starmer to resign.

And the Telegraph says:

A left-wing Labor source told The Telegraph: “Everyone from the Prime Minister to the junior bagman knows who was behind the McChicken Coup. And his name rhymes with Les Weeting.”

The McChicken Coup refers to apparent efforts to use the sacking of Sir Keir’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney to force the Prime Minister to step aside.

A. streeting spokesman He told the Telegraph:

Wes didn’t ask Anas to do this; There was no coordination with Anas on this issue. Anas is the leader of the Scottish Labor Party; he is his own man and Wes has great respect for him.

In an interview with Sky News this morning, he said: Ed Miliband He was asked whether he thought Sarwar was conspiring with Streeting. “I don’t know,” he said. “I won’t get into the Kremlinology of all this.”

When asked about a Streeting spokesman commenting to the Telegraph about No 10 claiming to have briefed against Streeting for alleged disloyalty, and asked to respond, Miliband said:

Switch to dot org. So, let’s move on. Let’s skip all this.

Come on. I say this to our colleagues; Don’t focus on yourself. Focus on the country. That was Keir’s message last night and he’s absolutely right.

In his interview today, Ed Miliband Keir Starmer has a “fiery passion” to end the “class divide” in British politics, he said (see 09.15am), nick robinsonThe presenter said Miliband would be accused of encouraging class warfare.

It was a fair guess. Within minutes a Mail journalist posted this on social media.

Ed Miliband suggests that Starmer will now start a new class war: ‘What angers Keir the most is class, class division; he is there to change that.
‘I object to the idea that this person is not someone driven by fiery passion.
‘He knows we need more of this, and we’ll see more of this.’

When Robinson When Miliband told him he was proposing class war, he replied:

Get out of this…

This isn’t class warfare, Nick.

This means that many people from working-class backgrounds in our country are belittled and hindered, whether by not being able to get an apprenticeship or by not being able to get on their feet. The inequalities we face are holding people back.

Keir aims to change not just social mobility for a few, but recognition for all, a good life for all. That’s what motivates him.

That this is about class warfare is complete nonsense.

Good morning. One result of yesterday – for several hours Tim Allan’s resignation and Anas Sarwar’s declaration of no confidence looked like the beginning of a leadership coup that would have brought down Keir Starmer had not cabinet ministers (and Angela Rayner) come together – Starmer needed a new communications director at No 10.

Listening to the morning media conference, it becomes clear that he should appoint Ed Miliband. Because the energy minister has done an excellent job defending Starmer; This implied that Starmer’s premiership was not, or at least should not be, fatally damaged.

Miliband’s most important message came in his interview on the Today programme, when he argued that yesterday’s events should be “a moment of change” for the Labor government.

Referring to what happened yesterday, Miliband said:

After Anas Sarwar made his statement, Labor MPs looked over the cliff and did not like what they saw.

And they thought the right thing to do was to unite behind Keir, to focus on the country, because we didn’t want to go down the path of the chaotic, disorganized leadership race that the Conservatives had in power.

But I want to be very clear; Peter Mandelson should never have been appointed to this position. We are a government whose main purpose is to stand by the weak, not the powerful, and this undermines that.

And this should be a moment of change where our purpose is much clearer, where we avoid some of the mistakes we made and at the same time focus outward to the country.

Miliband said the government had done a lot of good things but was “stifled” by policy mistakes such as getting rid of winter fuel payments. (Sarwar also touched on this exact point yesterday, using the phrase “drowning”.) Miliband said that Starmer has such a mission, saying that in politics, “what keeps you going is having your values ​​and your moral mission.”

For 20 years, this country has been ruled by the rich and powerful, not by ordinary workers. And the manifestation of that is this long-term cost of living crisis. We exist to change this. This is our mission and everything must be consistent with this purpose.

Miliband said people were “angry” and wanted “courage” from political leaders.

However, the presenter nick robinsonAccording to Miliband, Starmer has many strengths but boldness is not one of them. Miliband He said he didn’t accept it.

I know Keir well. I know someone who got into politics for all the right reasons.

I’ll tell you what annoys Keir the most in this country. This is classy. This class distinction… It exists to change this. I strongly disagree with the idea that this is not someone driven by a burning passion for the injustices our country faces and how we need to change them. We need more than this. He knows we need more than that. I think we’ll see more of this.

In the interviews, it appeared Miliband was talking about his own beliefs as much as Starmer’s. But when asked if he wanted to be a leader himself, he insisted that he did not. “I tried this, I bought the T-shirt,” he said.

I will be publishing more of the Miliband interviews soon.

Here is the agenda of the day.

Morning: Keir Starmer heads the political cabinet.

Morning: Kemi Badenoch visits London.

11.30: Energy secretary Ed Miliband answers questions in the House of Commons.

Afternoon: A lobby briefing is being held in Downing Street.

12.20: Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham speaks At the Solution Foundation conference.

13.30: Welsh chief minister Eluned Morgan answers questions in the Senedd. Unlike his Scottish Labor counterpart, he is yet to comment on yesterday’s leadership crisis at Keir Starmer.

14.30: Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley gives evidence to the House of Commons home affairs committee.

Afternoon: Starmer is expected to visit.

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