The prime minister said the attack in Golders Green is ‘part of a pattern of rising antisemitism’ in the country
Steve Reed, the housing secretary, has warned that Labour risks “annihilation” if it gets rid of Keir Starmer and holds another leadership contest.
He delivered this message as he did a media interview round this morning. As Pippa Crerar reports in this overnight story, what Reed was saying in public echoes what multiple cabinet ministers have been telling the Guardian in private about the dangers of a leadership contest.
I speak to a lot of my fellow MPs, of course I do, all the time, but also council leaders, and they’re sick and tired of all this psychodrama … The whole notion that we would copy the Conservatives and go doomscrolling through leaders in a way that means the government is completely incapable of dealing with the things that matter to most of the British public is absolute nonsense, and I’m not going to engage in it, and most of our MPs would not engage in that either.
We can’t be like the Tories and doomscroll through leaders. It ends in annihilation. We’ve got to focus on the British public, not ourselves.
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