Jeremy Corbyn is leading Labour towards electoral DISASTER, warns Lord Blunkett
JEREMY Corbyn is leading Labour towards electoral disaster, former Cabinet minister Lord Blunkett warned yesterday. The former home secretary is the most senior Labour figure to call for a change of party leadership after last week’s local election flop.
Blunkett wrote that Corbyn is leading the party away from victory
Other party insiders warned Mr Corbyn’s ambivalent stance over Brexit risked alienating millions in the party’s northern heartlands.
The angry criticism intensified as Labour MPs pondered the party’s failure to take or retain control of a string of local authorities.
David Blunkett hit out at the hard- Left leader, saying the party “catastrophically failed” to take key councils in Thursday’s polls.
“Corbyn is leading the party away from victory,” the peer wrote.
Criticism intensified as Labour MPs pondered the party’s failure to retain control of locals
Corbyn is leading the party away from victory
“The Labour Party should be leading the national debate about our future.”
But all Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell offer are ideas “rejected in the 1970s and 80s”.
He asked: “What is the point of Labour as a party of principle if it doesn’t make a stand for the people it is elected to represent rather than peddle outmoded political dogma?”