“We don’t do hostile takeovers in the Labour Party, it’s not what we’re about,” Lucy Powell told the Today programme this morning. At 1:01 pm on Sunday 26 June 2016, Powell resigned as Shadow Education Secretary, making her one of the first Shadow Ministers to resign hourly according to Peter Mandelson’s timetable that led up to a vote of no confidence by the Parliamentary Labour Party on Tuesday 28 June.
44 Shadow Ministers, including Keir Starmer, resigned in as many hours, and Jeremy Corbyn lost the vote of no confidence. He remained in place, and led the Labour Party to the 2017 near miss that would have been a victory if its own Epstein Class staff had not undermined the campaign. But Powell has at best changed her mind in 10 years.
All they wanted to do was beat the Left, they never had any plan for after that.
ReplyDeleteExcept to keep the municipal gravy train rolling. But goodbye to all that.
DeletePowell has made no impact as Deputy Leader.
ReplyDeleteNo, people are still talking about Rayner as a potential Leader. No one mentions Powell.
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