Labour MP says Corbyn can't connect with Brits who LOVE 'family, community and country'
A LABOUR MP says Jeremy Corbyn is failing to connect with Brits who care about 'work, family, community and country' after his dismal performance at PMQs last week.
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Stephen Kinnock admitted it felt like a “missed opportunity” after the Labour leader chose to quiz Theresa May on schools, social care and the health service instead.
The Aberavon MP said Mr Corbyn should have used all six of his questions to grill the Prime Minister on “broken manifesto pledges”.
Speaking on Peston on Sunday, he said: “It would have been better to really focus on broken manifesto pledges.
“I think many many people voted Conservative at the last election on the basis of that pledge, which is there in black and white, not to raise VAT or National Insurance or Income Tax and that was blatantly broken.
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It felt like a missed opportunity but I think we’ve got to recognise that what the party needs is to focus on what really matters to people out there
“And I think that’s what the six questions at Prime Minister’s Questions – probably better to use all six to demand an apology to the British public from the Prime Minister for doing that.”
When probed about “what went wrong”, Mr Kinnock dodged the question.
He said: “I’ll leave Jeremy to answer that question.”
Host Robert Peston then asked: “How demoralised were all of you? Because you must have been sitting there thinking ‘this is a great moment for us’.”
The politician agreed and said Labour needed to set out a “clear set of messages” in order to win a general election.
He said: “Yeah, it felt like a missed opportunity but I think we’ve got to recognise that what the party needs is to focus on what really matters to people out there.
“And that is work, family, community and country, and we need a set of clear messages which actually reconnects with people and we can win elections on that basis.”
Defending Mr Corbyn last week was shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry.
She told BBC Radio 4: “We all know that they did this absolutely at the last minute and indeed you can see me coming into the chamber with the letter that we got a couple of minutes before PMQs started.
“And so Jeremy changed tact and asked questions about schools, he asked questions about social care and about the health service.”