Starmer asked privately if he should quit Corbyn's top team, says Streeting

Wes Streeting has revealed that he was privately asked by Keir Starmer if he should leave Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet team due to the 'challenges' facing the party, including anti-Semitism.

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The Shadow Health Secretary's comments - a critic of Mr Corbyn's party leadership came as he defended the Labor leader for staying on his predecessor's top team.

Sir Keir was appointed Shadow Brexit Secretary after Mr Corbyn overwhelmingly defeated a leadership challenge in 2016 and remained in the top team until April 2020 when he was elected leader.

Since then, Sir Keir has repeatedly clashed with the left and suspended Mr Corbyn's whip, but has been criticized by Tory MPs for following his predecessor. in the Shadow Cabinet.

Addressing the matter, Mr Streeting, who was appearing as a guest presenter on LBC, said: 'I'm not sure I've shared this publicly before.

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"I remember having had a conversation with Keir once and he was the shadow Brexit secretary and [had] a very important job with all the negotiations going on about the biggest issue of the day.

“I remember for speaking to Keir about anti-Semitism and some of the other challenges that we have because I always saw him as one of the reasonable, impartial, and decent people in the shadow cabinet that I could go to and talk to.

"We had a pretty solid conversation about these challenges and Keir said, 'Listen, do you think I should de shadow cabinet mission, is that what you're telling me?" For love don't do this we absolutely need you in this we need you to try and make a difference' whether it's on Brexit or some of the other challenges that Labor was confronted.

Although Mr Streeting described Mr Corbyn's position in 2016 as 'untenable' and did not serve in the shadow cabinet, he insisted he had no not "judged 'Sir Keir' harshly or ill for doing so".

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"He was one of many people trying to make a difference, trying to stop Labor of losing a general election, trying to prevent Labor from losing its moral compass on issues like anti-Semitism,” he added.

Addressing the leadership race of the Conservatives, Mr. Streeting equaled ment claimed that it was a "very, very strange choice" for party MPs to select Rishi Sunak. , the former Chancellor, and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss for the second round.

"We're done with the final two who...