McDonnell’s Socialist Campaign Group is driving a wedge between Labour’s hard left and the party’s new leadership in response to the leaked Antisemitism report. Labour’s former leadership duo have resisted speaking publicly about the document, written by their allies before their toppling from power. Until now…
Speaking to a video conference of Momentum’s new internal faction ‘Forward Momentum’, the former shadow chancellor said, “the recent leaked report has demonstrated just what we were up against. Even for me, even though we knew there was undermining taking place, even to me it’s pretty staggering”, claiming to have been ‘staggered’ at the “language used, the bullying, the racism and sexism”.
McDonnell drove the wedge between the former and current Labour leadership further, claiming Sir Keir’s response – in the form of an investigation into how the document was leaked – does not go far enough, and arguing the main focus of any investigation “has got to be the substance of the report and the way in which people were abused and the undermining of the Jeremy Corbyn campaign to win that election in 2017.” Guido’s not sure an investigation drawing public attention to the content of the 850-page report will do the Labour Party any favours…
Read the full transcript of McDonnell’s comments in full below:
It’s expected that soon the Government will announce that every Briton over the age of 70 should self-isolate for “a very long time” to protect themselves from Coronavirus. Unfortunately for at least one prominent politician, they pass that threshold and therefore will also have to follow the advice. Jeremy Corbyn…
Corbyn isn’t the only one, with 23 fellow MPs also passing the 70-year age marker. Along with other MPs currently self-isolating, we would see 6.3% of MPs off work. Equivalent to 2,079,000 of the working population…
McDonnell – who is saved with his positively youthful 68 years of age – had already hinted everyone “should follow medical advice”; Corbyn, however, refused to commit, merely saying “I think we should ask people to isolate themselves if they have the symptoms in any form and if they are vulnerable.”
A Labour Party spokesman, however, has now confirmed to Guido that Corbyn will follow all advice in the event the Government tell all over-70s to self-isolate for months. A move that will undermine his attack line from the last few weeks that Boris is a “part-time Prime Minister”…
The full list of 70-year-old-plus MPs poised for lockdown:
Speaking to ITV, John McDonnell has said the event to announce the next Labour leader on April 4 will very likely have to be cancelled due to Coronavirus, and will now happen behind closed doors, either “through a TV event or social media”. Don’t be surprised when Rebecca Long-Bailey now wins with 110% of the vote…
You’ve got a problem when a socialist can attack you on not being entrepreneur-friendly enough…
Responding to the Queen’s Speech, Labour’s John McDonnell acutely commented:
“This is more pomp and ceremony”
