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In a book published earlier this year that seems to have been designed to raise her national profile and sort of succeeded, she claimed to have shot a 14-month-old dog in a gravel pit because he wouldn’t behave, as well as to have stared down North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a meeting that, it would later emerge, never took place, because she made it up.

The morning after Foden's arrest, she said there was a special staff meeting.

They said he had initially been asked his views in a private meeting of Labour MPs, but once that leaked, he felt it necessary to explain publicly why he had come to his opinion.

But Streeting’s view became public after he told a large, notionally private, meeting of Labour MPs what he thought.

Speaking after meeting Nipsa, Unite, and Unison, the minister said there had been constructive discussions.