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Former Cabinet minister Louise Haigh has referred to as on Keir Starmer to study classes from a shocking ex-PM following Labour’s election drubbing final week. Ms Haigh, who served as Transport Secretary, mentioned Sir Keir ought to take classes from Tory Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher as a way to avert an “existential crisis”.

Speaking to GB News, the Labour MP says the Government shouldn’t be “taking the fight” to Reform. Ms Haigh informed the channel: “Margaret Thatcher drew her strength from that conflict and from defining her enemies, whether it be the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) or the Soviet Union. Obviously, I would completely disagree with the battle that she took with the NUM, but that meant that people knew exactly who she was and what she was for, and not everything in politics [is] about conflict. Nobody wants to see everyone rowing all the time.

“But I do think drawing those dividing lines and showing that taking on bad bosses that don’t pay the minimum wage, taking on bad bosses that aren’t delivering the employment rights that we are expanding at the moment.

“That will define why we’re doing the things that we’re doing, and it will make people hear them that much clearer.”

She insisted she stays a “loyal foot soldier” and assist of Sir Keir Starmer’s, and doesn’t “take any joy in speaking out like this”.

But she added: “I genuinely believe those results on Thursday need to be the canary down the mine for the Labour Party, and I was genuinely alarmed by their response.”

“That’s why I felt I had the need to speak out, because I think unless we issue a course correction now, we are in danger of our own existential crisis over the coming months, years, and certainly in the next election.”

The Sheffield MP served for a short time as Transport Secretary in Sir Keir’s first authorities, earlier than resigning after it emerged she had pleaded responsible to a felony offence in 2013.

Since the native elections, Ms Haigh has change into more and more vocal concerning the failings of Sir Keir and his wider No. 10 operation, criticising the tradition of briefings from the PM’s advisors.

She accused Downing Street insiders of sexist briefings towards feminine ministers, including she is “really fed up” with the assaults.

It was reported this weekend that Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson are dealing with the sack.

She informed Newsnight: “I’m simply actually fed up of opening the papers and studying briefings towards my feminine former colleagues.”

“And I was really angry over the weekend to see the response to the electoral defeat that we had suffered at the hands of Reform to be that we should sack two female, northern Cabinet ministers and two of our best communicators with those voters that we need to communicate with most.

“I think that does reveal that there are people working in No 10 who are more interested in those kinds of politics than they are in running the country.”