Louise Haigh’s remarks follow resignations of PM’s chief of staff Sue Gray and Labour MP Rosie Duffield
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Keir Starmer does not have a problem with women, the transport secretary, Louise Haigh, has said, adding that the prime minister had promoted a number of women – but she admitted the government had made “missteps”.
Haigh, one of a number of female cabinet ministers who had been close to Starmer’s former chief of staff Sue Gray, denied that the prime minister had a problem with women after Gray’s departure and her replacement by his campaign director, Morgan McSweeney.
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