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Watch: Haigh accuses No. 10 of briefing against women

7 May 2025

8:44 PM

7 May 2025

8:44 PM

All is not well in the Labour party. After a rather bruising set of local elections for Sir Keir Starmer, now the PM’s advisers are under scrutiny after ex-transport minister Louise Haigh accused No. 10 of briefing against women. Speaking to the Beeb’s Victoria Derbyshire on Newsnight, Haigh admitted she was ‘really fed up’ of reading negative briefings about her female colleagues in the papers, adding: ‘The kind of briefing that undermines them on a daily basis is not is not supporting the Prime Minister, and it’s not supporting the Labour government.’

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