Victoria Atkins accused Keir Starmer of evicting women MPs and creating a ‘boys club’.Source: Sky News
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00:00 They will have had their own reasons for going.
00:02 It's a great surprise, I think, to everyone,
00:05 including possibly to Natalie Helfrich herself,
00:08 that such a hard-right Conservative politician
00:11 should choose to join Labour.
00:14 But then we see this week from Labour
00:16 that Sir Keir Starmer can't work out
00:18 whether Diane Abbott, one of his longer-standing
00:21 and trailblazing Members of Parliament,
00:24 should in fact be a Member of Parliament.
00:26 He can't work it out.
00:27 So it shows that there is a bit of an identity...
00:28 It will no doubt make you happy to know that
00:30 Yvette Cooper tells me that they've solved that problem.
00:32 Oh, well, I'm sure that's right.
00:34 We see today that Sir Keir is suggesting giving out peerages
00:37 to solve the problem, and interestingly,
00:39 inserting some of his own boys' club
00:42 into those very seats from which he's ejecting women.
00:45 I have noticed that.