“We do need far more funding for charities to make sure that they can support people during [lockdown]”.
The Shadow Chancellor responds to allegations from Lisa Nandy about the hard left’s conduct during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
How the Conservatives are winning and Labour losing the working class – a pattern that the latter’s leadership candidates are set to repeat.
Long-Bailey stayed loyal to Corbyn, and that’s why Abbott is supporting her in the Labour leadership contest.
Try to please everyone and you end up pleasing nobody. Even Lisa Nandy, who seems more alert than most of her rivals, has fallen into this trap.
“We commission think tanks to write us reports in London…we sit behind desks in Westminster and Victoria Street.”
They knew that British Jews were frightened of the prospect of a Corbyn Government. They knew those fears were valid. Yet Phillips and Nandy carried on campaigning.
The patriotic, Brexit-voting working class, neglected for decades by Labour, must now be championed by the Conservatives.
The Prime Minister made it as easy as he could for Labour MPs to support the Bill, and the Leader of the Opposition did not make it very hard.
“I would vote for a deal, but this is not a deal. It is a pre-election party political broadcast for the Prime Minister.”
How the pro-Leave Spartans, not pro-Remain or pro-Soft Brexit Tories, could end up whipless – and barred from contesting a general election as Conservatives.
She adds that “people on each extreme… have been knocking out all the compromise.”
Jeremy Corbyn’s Surrender Bill won’t just delay Brexit. It threatens to stop it altogether.