Callum Anderson

Well, I believe he is the best person for the job.

18 months ago, the Labour Party, after 14 years in opposition, was elected to a five-year mandate to deliver change, change in our economy, change in our public services and change in the way that we do politics in this country.

It's probably been a very difficult time.

week for the government, and it's been a turbulent 18 months, first 18 months in government.

We have inherited an incredibly challenging economic and geopolitical picture, which means we haven't been able to deliver the change that people who live in my constituency want.

But the time for us now, and I think last night when the prime minister spoke to Labour MPs and peers, was really clear his determination, his renewed determination to lead from the front.

And I think we owe it to him to support him in delivering on his mandate.

Well, I will leave appointments to his No.

10 team to him, ditto the Cabinet and the Junior Ministerial positions.

I think it's important that we give them space now over the coming weeks and months, given that we have a new parliamentary session, I anticipate, later in the spring, early summer, to deliver on that.

But what I think the Prime Minister recognises, and I think what I recognise, is that if we are to...

realise the full potential of the manifesto that we were elected on, we do need to integrate and include the views of the whole parliamentary Labour Party, all Labour MPs and peers.

I don't think we want, you know, we don't want a situation where...

decisions regarding economic policy or social policy are you know excessively to a small tight group when you say all are you talking about the gender in the cabinet or are you talking about the left or right spectrum in the cabinet well what i would say you know there's around 400 members labour members of parliament there is a lot of experience a lot of uh expertise

From all intakes, obviously, I'm most familiar with my own.

We've had people who run their own businesses, worked in finance, worked in all kinds of fields.

And I think it's important that we leverage that expertise because we've got huge economic and social challenges before us.

Well, I don't believe that it is mutually exclusive, that we can both be inclusive in our policymaking and ensure that we are bringing the whole parliamentary party with us, but also not be entirely sticking to our fiscal rules and the concept of being exclusive.

economically responsible.

That's certainly something that's a non-negotiable from my personal perspective.