Northern female MPs target of hostile media briefings from people working in No. 10', says former Labour minister Newsnight, BBC
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00:00I want to ask you about the culture in number 10 because you have talked about a culture of male advisers briefing against female cabinet ministers. What do you mean?
00:09Well, I'm just really fed up of opening the papers and reading briefing against my female former colleagues.
00:15And I was really angry at the weekend to see the response to the electoral defeat that we had suffered at the hands of reform to be that we should sack two female northern cabinet ministers and two of our best communicators with those voters that we need to communicate with most.
00:36I think that does reveal that there are people working in number 10 that are more interested in those kind of politics than they are about running the country.
00:45But are you saying they're briefing against them because they're women and northern and working class?
00:52I only ever seem to read briefing against my female former colleagues.
00:56What about Ed Miliband?
00:58Ed does get briefing. That's absolutely right. I wouldn't say that he gets it anywhere near as badly as my female colleagues do.
01:05OK.