Former shadow Chancellor John McDonnell tells i that the ex-Labour leader, currently suspended by the party, will be a 'campaigning asset'
Former shadow Chancellor John McDonnell tells i that the ex-Labour leader, currently suspended by the party, will be a ‘campaigning asset’
“It’s just so divisive. I’m still hoping against hope Keir lets the local members decide who they want – and I’m pretty sure they want Jeremy.” “I think he’d be a campaigning asset, particularly in certain communities and amongst certain groups of people and certainly within London itself. Why deny yourself that?”McDonnell, 72, says he wrote to the Labour leader about the Corbyn issue. In fact he seems to write to him quite a bit; in the course of an interview with theWe’re speaking in the aftermath ofthat is written up as the completion of the Blairite takeover.
Ever the operator, McDonnell avoids personal attacks on the new Shadow Cabinet team, however, but says instead they are being set up to fail. The determination of Starmer and Rachel Reeves, his successor as shadow Chancellor, toand bring the national debt down has placed all members of the Shadow Cabinet in a “very difficult position” he says.
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