Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls to sack Transport Secretary Louise Haigh after she said she backed a boycott of P&O Ferries and branded it a 'cowboy operator' after it sacked 800 staff in 2022.
Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls to sack his Transport Secretary after she almost torpedoed £1billion worth of investment in Britain.
Sources said officials spent the weekend 'hitting the phones' to repair the relationship with the firm. DP World did a U-turn and confirmed the investment after saying it had received 'the clarity we need'.Yesterday, a No 10 source insisted Sir Keir 'retains confidence' in Ms Haigh after some Labour MPs privately said her position was 'untenable'
Yesterday, a No 10 source insisted Sir Keir 'retains confidence' in Ms Haigh after some Labour MPs privately said her position was 'untenable'. There is also growing speculation she faces the axe when the PM holds his first Cabinet reshuffle. Tory MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, who is chairman of the public accounts committee, said: 'This all stems from virtually none of the Cabinet having ever run a business. They don't know what it's like to employ people and encourage investment and make a profit and everything else.
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