Labour ‘unprepared’ for the ‘state’ of its inheritance, new Commons Leader says

Commons Leader Sir Alan Campbell, who spoke at the despatch box for his first outing at the weekly Business Questions session in his new role (James Manning/PA) - (PA Archive)

Labour was “unprepared” for the “scale of the state that this country was in” when the Conservatives left office, the new Commons Leader has said.

Sir Alan Campbell faced questions about Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership, which Conservative frontbencher Jesse Norman described as being like an “unending episode of The Office”.