Labour Deputy Leader Lucy Powell:
“Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on such a clear win in New York. His victory shows that boldness and a story of economic change in the interests of the many not the few, defeats the politics of division and despair.”
Most Labourites have kept quiet publicly on the win. Despite the fact the party will probably dispatch 30 staff to “learn from the success of the Mamdani campaign” before producing a few lookalike social media adverts…
His policies:
Get Powell in those Budget meetings, pronto!
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”