David Lammy, deputy prime minister, has called on Labour to pull back from “internecine warfare” over Europe, as he insisted that Sir Keir Starmer would fight to save his job.
Lammy said Labour stood on the brink of political disaster unless it pulled together and warned that weeks of infighting would raise the risk of the party being replaced by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
“This is not a sixth-form debate,” Lammy said, after Wes Streeting, who hopes to succeed Starmer as prime minister, said he wanted to see Britain “one day back in the European Union”. Asked if Starmer would fight to stay in Number 10, Lammy said: “Yes.”
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