The former Deputy Labour Leader Tom Watson has said that he ‘worries’ about Rebecca Long Bailey running for party leader and described her as a “continuity candidate” who “stands for Corbynism in its purest sense”.
Long Bailey, the MP for Salford and Eccles is expected to announce her candidature for the leadership race very shortly Watson who stood down before the last section when asked on Sky News about the candidates said
“The one that I worry about — but I don’t know what she stands for — I mean, when I look at Rebecca Long Bailey, she’s really the continuity candidate,” She sort of stands for Corbynism in its purest sense and that’s perfectly legitimate but we have lost two elections with that play.
Doing the rounds of the TV studios he later told Good Morning Britain:
“They need to explain why they keep losing elections. Rebecca Long Bailey was in the shadow cabinet and wedded to that manifesto. That’s true of Keir as well, and Emily Thornberry.
“The guys that were in the shadow cabinet have a harder task because they’ve got to explain why they signed up to two manifestos that lost us elections. Members have got to decide whether we want an electorally successful party or whether we want to be pure in that classic ideological sense.”
