Lucy Powell has insisted a "boys club" culture within No 10, including "nasty" anonymous briefings targeting women, will change under Andy Burnham, the presumptive successor to Sir Keir Starmer.
Labour’s deputy leader said she believed the “unpleasant” culture would be different under Mr Burnham, telling The Guardian that in Sir Keir’s Downing Street, “there was very clearly a pattern over time of anonymous nasty briefings against colleagues being disproportionately meted out to women.”