The former Labour front bencher under Corbyn also says Keir Starmer should listen to a broader range of ideas
‘Ideally, if you get a black woman that’s got good class politics, she can have my vote and my support,’ says Clive Lewis “No, I’m not,” he says when asked if he’s pleased. The Labour MP, a Shadow Cabinet member under Jeremy Corbyn who is emerging as an influential voice of the left under Keir Starmer, explains that his politics are primarily concerned with class and he doesn’t believe Badenoch will represent the interests of working people.
“They are loyal to those who speak the language of their class. She speaks the language of their class very eloquently.” “If there is a white person with better class politics than a black person, then I’m going to have a preference for the person with the better class politics because most black people find themselves as working-class people,” he argues.
He adds: “Do I believe that there are people who have, you know, deeply racist ideological agendas on that side of politics?” he says. “Yes, I do. What does it do ? She fudges it. I think having Kemi there blurs the lines. I’ve heard that there are Conservatives that have said that Priti Patel, Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly and others, they can say things that we can’t – and that’s very telling.”
“The soft left is dissipated, it doesn’t really exist, and it needs to form pretty quickly because I think without that the party is kind of flying with one wing, and that doesn’t create stability.” But like universal suffrage, or even the abolition of slavery, where early advocates encountered opposition and even mockery, he thinks acceptance of the need to repair a shameful past, and questions of how to do so, are only going to grow.
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