""After having fought so hard for the chance to change our country, I'm not prepared to walk away from my mandate and my responsibility to my country, or to plunge us into chaos as others have done. "I have won every fight I've ever been in.""
""The government doesn't have an economic philosophy which is then followed through in a programme of policies.""
""Today's events were so clearly manipulated and co-ordinated by the Wes Streeting campaign, but they catastrophically failed when he bottled it. He doesn't have the kind of support he thinks he does and today proves it, not least because of his very close and long-standing relationship with Peter Mandelson.""
Keir Starmer met with his Cabinet as pressure grew after Health Secretary Wes Streeting revealed he exchanged messages with Peter Mandelson criticizing the government's economic approach. Starmer told colleagues he will not abandon his mandate and said he has won every fight he has been in. Streeting told Sky News he has "nothing to hide" about messages with Mandelson. Mandelson wrote that the government lacks an economic philosophy and Streeting replied there is "no growth strategy at all." The Cabinet Office Propriety and Ethics team instructed ministers not to publish any messages received from Mandelson, and internal critics accused Streeting of manipulation and lacking support.
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