Sir Keir Starmer has been hit with a fresh attack from Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.
Mr Burnham, who was accused of jumping the gun by talking up his leadership ambitions at the Labour Party Conference, criticised the Prime Minister’s record on homelessness.
He said: “What I am saying is homelessness is fixable – it requires something more radical if you really want to fix it.
“If you go for that ‘housing first’ approach – ‘everyone in’, ‘a bed every night’, those type of approaches – in the end, in my view, you save money.
“And that’s what I would encourage them to do. So I’m not saying they haven’t done lots of good things. They have done lots of really important things. But from here, let’s get into a more radical approach.”
Mr Burnham’s intervention came just hours after Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey warned Sir Keir might only have 12 more months in Downing Street.
Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Ed asked: “Does the Prime Minister fear if he keeps opposing a customs union, in 12 months’ time he will not be standing there?”
Sir Keir replied: “We have got a closer relationship with the EU, through our reset earlier this year. And, yes, I do want a closer relationship to the one we’ve got at the moment, we are moving towards that.
“We do have manifesto commitments on issues such as single market, customs union and freedom of movement.”
The exchange came after the Prime Minister was rocked by a 13-strong Brexit revolt over the a Ten Minute Rule Bill to drag Britain back into the EU’s customs union.
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‘Hostile to Britain!’ Reform UK slams Labour after Nigel Farage’s party frozen out of House of Lords despite poll lead
Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf have hit out at the Labour Government after Reform UK were barred from nominating supporters to the House of Lords.
Their protests came as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer proposed 25 new peers to bolster his party’s control of the Upper Chamber.
Among those nominated were several Labour allies, including Sir Keir’s former communications head, Matthew Doyle, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s chief of staff, Katie Martin, leading to accusations of “cronyism”.
Other party leaders were also granted nominations to the Lords, with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch putting forward two new peers and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey appointing five.
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David Lammy planning to erase childhood criminal records to prevent blighting future job prospects
Justice Secretary David Lammy is examining proposals that would erase childhood criminal records for thousands of individuals across the country.
The Deputy Prime Minister is believed to be eyeing up an overhaul of the existing system to prevent youth convictions from damaging people’s employment opportunities later in life.
Mr Lammy is said to be looking at ways to streamline the process, ensuring background checks remain “proportionate” to the original offence.
“We will consider opportunities to simplify the criminal records regime to ensure it is clear and proportionate, particularly in relation to childhood offences,” he said.
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