Lord Andrew Adonis explained the next leader should be “the person who can win the election” against Boris Johnson. He added female members of the Labour Party have agreed with him. LBC host Andrew Pierce said: “There has been a lot of pressure from women MPs. Harriet Harman, people like that, saying it’s time for God’s sake, the Labour Party elects a woman leader for the first time in its history. You’re going for the only man in the lineup.

“Do you have some sympathy for that view that it is time the Labour Party found a woman, and there are four women running, all of them, arguably, qualified to do the job?”

Speaking to LBC, Mr Adonis said: “I think we should go for the person who can win the election. That’s our duty.

“Our duty is to put before the country an alternative to Boris Johnson that can win and that will be the view equally of women as well as men.

“I certainly don’t think we should put a less good woman in rather than a better man. Actually, that isn’t the view of women members I’ve spoken to either.”

He continued: “I think that would be a profound mistake to go in the direction of having the second best or third best leader that love rather than the best.

“We’ve just lost four elections, four elections in a row.

“I mean, apart from Tony Blair, no one has won an election now for the Labour Party since Harold Wilson. It is time to get real.”

It comes as BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg grilled Labour leadership hopeful Keir Starmer for not speaking out during the general election last December as she accused him of failing to try and “have it both ways”.

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg hit out at Labour’s Keir Starmer for the party’s two big issues, accusing the Shadow Brexit Secretary of failing to speak out.

The MP for Holborn and St Pancras struggled to answer as he deflected from the question.

Ms Kuenssberg asked: “On two big issues for the Labour Party: the Brexit plan – you were in charge of that – and anti-Semitism, racism against Jewish people that the people didn’t take seriously enough.

BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg grilled Labour leadership hopeful Keir Starmer for not speaking out during the general election last December as she accused him of failing to try and “have it both ways”.

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BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg hit out at Labour’s Keir Starmer for the party’s two big issues, accusing the Shadow Brexit Secretary of failing to speak out.

The MP for Holborn and St Pancras struggled to answer as he deflected from the question.

Ms Kuenssberg asked: “On two big issues for the Labour Party: the Brexit plan – you were in charge of that – and anti-Semitism, racism against Jewish people that the people didn’t take seriously enough.

Mr Starmer continued: “We were trying to bring together both sides whether they voted leave or they voted Remain.”

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