Louise Haigh
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373 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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And we've really tried to model that already.
You know, Andy was really clear in the by-election that he wasn't going to do traditional points.
Scoring, that there wasn't going to be a negative campaign even against the reform candidate.
And we've carried that over already.
You know, there's been no negative briefing against any of our colleagues, which shouldn't be something to boast about, but is actually very, very different from unfortunately the culture that we have seen.
We're really trying to model that, really trying to make sure that we only recruit people who are absolutely committed to that culture.
And I think I uh certainly would uh would take uh Bridget and Lisa's word for it.
I mean they have both been, as have I obviously, victims of incredibly sexist and unpleasant briefing in the press.
Angela has the way Sue Gray was treated was absolutely disgraceful.
Um She was the first chief of staff.
You know, the idea that there wasn't a a cabal of of of men that were deliberately mistreating
women around the government is just fanciful.
You w you had to open the papers most day to read the vicious briefing that was happening, you know, the horrible way they would talk about our colleagues to journalists.
I mean I've always had red hair of of varying degrees and it did go back very, very red in the general election.
Do you know, after I left government I heard that the whips and some around number ten had been pestering both my partner and some of my friends to tell them that they had to tell me I had to dye my hair and all of them were like, I'm not telling her that.
Are you mad?
There's no way I'm daring to do that.
Look, it certainly made me a a a very obvious target to deride by the Daily Mail and to freak people out that I was a sort of a communist and uh
Well, I mean on the on the train drivers, they did get what sounded like a big rise because it was done over three years.
They'd not had a pay rise in three years and they'd been on national strike for two years, which was causing, as you I'm sure you'll remember, absolute havoc on the national railways.
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