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Labour in turmoil over leadership briefings
Cabinet ministers and MPs have decried Downing Street’s ‘toxic culture’.
Anonymous briefings that Keir Starmer would fight a leadership challenge have fuelled speculation about discontent with the prime minister among the parliamentary party. We hear that Labour MPs are increasingly openly contemptuous of the PM in their briefings to journalists.
Also on the programme: the Democrats release emails suggesting Donald Trump was aware of sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein; and the knitters of the Shetland Islands tell us they’ve been stitched up by a TV portrayal of their craft.
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