Andy Burnham has said that he will gives considered response tomorrow to Tony Blair’s criticism tomorrow
The former Prime Minister wrote a 5,600-word essay in which he warned that Labour risked consigning Britain to “relegation from the Premier League of nations” and cautioned the party against a leftward shift.
He said that the Labour Party was playing with fire; or, more accurately, with its future, and that of the country while trying to change leader
Burnham has though hit back saying that Blair doesn’t mention inequality once telling the Observer
He doesn’t ment “If you don’t get how that’s driving politics now, if you are not rooting your analysis in the fact that people are unable to live and that things that were taken for granted are no longer affordable, then you are not understanding what’s going on.” Woo
Reform’s candidate is also under fire as the Telegraog digs up a story from 2016 Reform’s that Robert Kenyon that Brexiteers “peddled nationalistic pish” and that we had shot ourselves economically in the foot over the leave vote
Despite the comments, Kenyon has told The Telegraph that he had voted for Brexit, and had since “become convinced” that he made the right decision
Earlier it was reported that Kenyon had said Russia was “within its rights” to invade Crimea
“Russia are well within their rights to do what they have done as we did with the Falklands”
Nigel Farage has written to the charity commissioner regarding Hope not hate activities during the by election accusing the charity of canvassing for Labour
In the letter Farage claims the group is sending leaflets backing Andy Burnham across the constituency, with “a call to join the local fightback against Reform”.
Farage argues the leaflet breaches “regulatory obligations indirectly by allowing charitable grants to be utilised by the associated private company for non-charitable purposes“
The Times meanwhile reports that a charity run by the Green Party’s Makerfield by-election candidate called on Britain’s farming sector to be “decolonised” and shared guidance suggesting perfectionism and a sense of urgency were examples of “white supremacy culture”.
