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One of Keir Starmer’s former cupboard ministers has issued a damning warning that the federal government “cannot continue lurching from crisis to crisis” after a chaotic week of u-turns. Louise Haigh, who served as Transport Secretary in Keir Starmer’s preliminary authorities went public to voice many Labour MPs’ frustrations after the PM’s worst week but.

Speaking on the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg present this morning, Ms Haigh mentioned “serious lessons need to be learned” after this week’s enormous revolt that pressured a u-turn on welfare cuts. Ms Haigh mentioned: “I think this week has demonstrated that there are serious issues with the political strategy and with the relationship with the wider parliamentary Labour Party. I’m really pleased the Prime Minister has acknowledged those issues and accepted that they exist, and that there is a need to address them and move on, and that serious lessons need to be learned.”

Asked how she thinks Sir Keir bought the problem ‘so wrong’, the highest Labour MP mentioned she believes there was points “with both the economic policy and political strategy”.

“That’s what drove so many colleagues to take this unprecedented step this week and were so frustrated.

“I don’t think we can continue lurching from crisis to crisis like this every six months based on a future OBR prediction in five years time.

“The Bank of England governor said this week we should avoid overly interpreting that forecast and basing our economic policy on that. That’s not a stable way to govern and it’s not a way to make decisions on public spending.”

The open problem to the Prime Minister’s authority got here after per week that noticed relations between No. 10 and MPs fracture.

Over 125 Labour MPs received a serious victory over Sir Keir as they secured an enormous climbdown on cuts to Personal Independence Payments, leaving Rachel Reeves much more strain to hike taxes on the October Budget.

The Prime Minister additionally made a second U-turn, saying he regretted utilizing the phrase ‘island of strangers’ throughout a hardline immigration speech earlier within the 12 months.

Sir Keir claimed he had not learn the speech correctly forward of delivering it, as he had been too preoccupied with the firebombing of his north London townhouse.

This morning the Prime Minister angrily dismissed recommendations that his chief of workers Morgan McSweeny has been operating the present behind the scenes, describing the declare as “total bollocks”.

He stood by his under-fire chief of workers, who has turn into a lightning rod for criticism in current months, insisting he and Mr McSweeny have a “good working relationship”.

Sir Keir informed the Sunday Times: “All these decisions are my decisions and I take ownership of them.”

“My rule of leadership is, when things go well you get the plaudits; when things don’t go well you carry the can. I take responsibility for all the decisions made by this government. I do not talk about staff and I’d much prefer it if everybody else didn’t.”