Prime minister says Labour leader is ‘assuming he can just stroll into Number 10 without saying what he would do’
Our chief reporter, Daniel Boffey, has been speaking to shadow defence secretary John Healey: With Keir Starmer’s party 25 points ahead in the polls, and Rishi Sunak seemingly unable to unite the Conservatives, the bookies are sharply shortening the odds on a Labour government, but few in the party’s top ranks have been in government before and can point to the scars to prove it. Healey, 65, now the shadow defence secretary, holds a unique spot in the Labour Venn diagram.
Along with Ed Miliband, 54, Yvette Cooper, 55, Hilary Benn, 70, and Pat McFadden, 58, he was a frontbencher in the Blair-Brown years. But he was also a loyal member of the shadow cabinets of Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn and now enjoys Starmer’s confidence. It is a consistency that speaks to Healey’s natural reticence to become embroiled in Labour’s regular bouts of internecine warfare.
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