I will never forgive the MPs who participated in the coup against Jeremy Corbyn in 2016. We needed unity after the EU referendum but, instead, most Labour MPs shut down the role of the opposition.
A reminder that Lisa Nandy led Owen Smith’s leadership campaign. #Marr
@AngelaRayner I have great respect for Rebecca Long-Bailey too and am a former voter and constituent of hers. She too represents the best of the new generation of Labour leaders - like Angela, principled, with an inspiring life story and ideals and morals in all the right places.
I am supporting @AngelaRayner as next Labour leader, but the concept is right - Labour needs a gritty, resolved, left-wing Northern woman as its next leader. No more North London, Oxbridge aloof characters.
"I'd like to see Rebecca Long-Bailey as leader of the Labour Party."
Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon backs the shadow business secretary to be the new leader of the Labour Party.
He also tells @SophyRidgeSky that he may run to be deputy Labour leader.
#Ridge
I am not a Corbynista, but I respect Jeremy who has behaved with dignity throughout. He is a throughly decent human being who doesn't deserve all the shite that's been heaped upon him people unfitted to tie his shoe laces.
@kambizf Labour started shedding votes during those very same Blair years you seem to be nostalgic about. And don't forget the MIliband fudge of 2010-2015. Bad as it was, that leadership was also the first to be fit by media offensives. Remember the bacon incident?
The Guardian publishing this today after it hounded and slandered Corbyn at every turn since he won the leadership election says it all really. It has completed its objective.
@kambizf We had the first two in 2010 and 2015. Did they result in a different outcome? Would less Brexit fudging have resulted in a more balanced media, or people who voted Tory in the North saying they had heard Boris being Islamophobe and anti-gay instead of claiming they never did?
Very much looking forward to a Conservative government on 45% of the GB vote telling the SNP, on 45% of the Scottish vote, what it does and doesn't have a mandate for.
Jeremy Corbyn is one of the most principled and dynamic political figures of modern times. He’s given socialists everywhere tremendous inspiration and we’ll forever owe him our gratitude - particularly in light of what he’s been subjected to, courtesy of the worst people alive.
Shame on Lib Dems really. They gladly take Tory votes in places like North East Fife, and contribute decisively to knocking out the brilliant Emma Dent Coad and having her replaced with a Boris minion. Time for them to dissolve.
@TomKoohi The dithering was his own undoing. But the rest was largely fuelled by the media, and of course by the relentless backstabbing within Labour against him which started on 12 September 2015 . Labour has not had a Northern leader for decades. This has to change.