Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has instructed his potential successors to prepare for a leadership contest in the event of his resignation over Covid breaches, it has been reported.
‘I will not let our hard-won gains be squandered so we will need to be ready in the unlikely event that the worst comes to worst,’ he is said to have told friends.
Among them is Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy and Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting – who are both said to have received Sir Keir’s endorsement – as well as Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.‘Keir has been engaging in some sensible succession planning but there is also suspicion in the shadow cabinet that a couple of people hope he gets fined so they can take over,’ a source told the newspaper.
Addressing the alleged rule breach, he said ‘people were entitled to expect politicians would follow the same rules as everyone else’. Durham Police is unlikely to conclude their probe into Sir Keir until the end of the month, it is thought, and is keen to avoid announcing the conclusion before the results of Thursday by-elections in Wakefield and Honiton and Tiverton.
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