大象传媒

Dame Margaret Beckett has dismissed criticism of her official inquiry into why Labour lost the 2015 general election.

Gordon Brown's former pollster, Deborah Mattinson, described the report as a "whitewash and missed opportunity".

But speaking to the Daily Politics, Dame Beckett said "it was rather a silly thing to say", and defended the report's findings.

"I said we failed, our job was to try and create trust on our economic policy, in our approach on immigration, in our approach on welfare and we failed," she told Andrew Neil.