Election results – live: Thornberry denies calling Labour Leave supporters ‘stupid’ as Tories and SNP clash over Indyref2
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Your support makes all the difference.Jeremy Corbyn has been criticised for an article in The Observer, in which he defended the “desperately disappointing” general election result and claimed political cynicism had been a driving force in turning former Labour heartlands blue.
The Labour leader was met with derision after saying his Labour movement “won the argument”, despite the party succumbing to its worst defeat in decades.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson and his key adviser Dominic Cummings have declared a radical overhaul to the civil service is required in order to “get Brexit done”, dubbing it a “Whitehall revolution”.
The former director of the Vote Leave campaign has been a vocal critic of the civil service, with the move signalling that he and the PM’s plans for Britain could be more radical than their manifesto suggested.
The red wall crumbles...
The jibes against Jeremy Corbyn by those who have lost their seats continue - this time a cheeky sporting attack from former Rother Valley MP Kevin Barron.
The outgoing Labour leader has long made his love of Arsenal well known - once calling for them to be recognised by the commons as the best football club in the world.
Now in reference to Mr Corbyn's assessment Labour had "won the argument" in a general election that proved catastrophic for his party, Mr Barron has hinted the party leader must be pleased to see his side losing 3-0 to Manchester City.
Haigh: Leadership was 'of course' a factor in result - but now is the time for 'discipline'
Among Labour MPs beginning the work of considering the future of the party is Louise Haigh – a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet who nominated him for the leadership in 2015.
Ms Haigh, once considered among the core supporters of Mr Corbyn, said the leadership had “of course” been a factor in the failings of the party at the ballot box.
Writing on Twitter, she said: “People are rightly angry after Thursday's devastating and humiliating loss and the serious consequences for the people we exist to represent; but bitter recriminations simply aren’t going to help.”
We have to be honest about how we got here. The leadership was of course a factor, but so too were the years of bitter infighting and the party's neglect, both perceived and real, of areas of the UK over many years.
This result has been a long time in the making, and it is far from guaranteed that the historic realignment it represents will be unpicked.
We haven't won an election since I was 17 years old. We have been losing touch with some of our 'traditional voters' for some time. Brexit and the perception of the leadership crystallised this in their minds.
Many of us are going through a process of grief but we will achieve nothing through settling scores. The party is facing an existential threat and we have to work together to get out of it. No single part of the party or individual has all the answers.
The only questions that matters now are how do we fight in the country to tame an enormous Tory majority and how do we become a party of Government again. That is our founding purpose.
We have to understand how the party could be so far away from the people we were created to represent that they simply did not believe the alternative we were offering and instead believed Boris Johnson's Tory Party could bring change.
A new generation has to show through humility, honesty and discipline that we are ready to win back those that have left us and are prepared to put in place the structures to achieve it.
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