Lisa Nandy warns Labour faces being eradicated in just 10 years after Corbyn leadership
LISA NANDY has warned the Labour Party could be finished in a decade if they get their response to the crushing 2019 general election defeat wrong.
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Ms Nandy made the bleak prediction when speaking during the Labour leadership debate on Sky News. The debate is being hosted by Sophy Ridge and is between Rebecca Long-Bailey, Sir Keir Starmer and Ms Nandy.
Ms Nandy said: "This was no ordinary election the entire based collapsed beneath our feet.
"When nurses and miners are turning from us to the Tories in their hundreds of thousands we need an honest reckoning with what has just happened.
"There is a small window where they are looking to us.
"If we get this wrong again there will be no Labour Party to vote for in 10 years' time.
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"It isn't good enough to say we broadly got it right on Brexit, on leadership, on policy without any understanding on how we had our worse election defeat since 1935.
"We can't just change the face at the top and fix this.
"It has been 40 years in the making.
"In towns like Dewsbury good jobs have been lost and with them young people and spending power.
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She continued: "The scars are visible on our high streets, boarded up pubs and cancelled bus networks."
"People are growing old hundreds of miles away from children and grandchildren.
"You have told us but we have not responded.
"But I want you to know that I have heard you.
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"I am determined to fix this and bring Labour home to you.
"Progress is not inevitable if you want a different country you have to go out and fight for it.
"If you want a better leadership you have to go out and vote for it.
"So I am asking you to put your trust in me."