Stop calling me boring, Keir Starmer tells shadow cabinet

Labour leader urges colleagues to focus on returning to government, after a string of negative stories

Keir Starmer has urged his shadow cabinet to stop briefing the press that he is boring, warning them: What's boring is being in opposition."

Stung by a series of negative stories about his leadership, Starmer angrily urged colleagues at Tuesday's shadow cabinet meeting to focus on the job in hand, telling them it was boring" to undermine Labour's project of getting back into government.