Wigan MP Lisa Nandy has joined the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader
Nandy announces her decision in a letter to the Wigan Post saying that the new Labour leader should be someone with “skin in the game” and called for the rejection of the “paternalism of the past”.
“Without what were once our Labour heartlands, we will never win power in Westminster and help to build the country we know we can be,” she added
“I understand that we have one chance to win back the trust of people in Wigan, Workington and Wrexham.
“Without what were once our Labour heartlands we will never win power in Westminster and help to buld the country we know we can be.“ while concluding her message to her constituents by saying
“From the grassroots rugby league and football teams to the charities that have sustained people through the miners’ strike, pit closures and a decade of austerity, the belief that our community can be better has always been the driving force for change here in Wigan.
“We need a government that can match that ambition.”
She was joined in the leadership race by another Prominent backbenchers Jess Phillips who said that the Labour party needed a leader who “gets” the reason Labour lost the election, rather than candidates who believe Mr Corbyn’s claim that he “won the argument”
The Birmingham MP delivered what was seen as athinly veiled attack on Left-wing favourite and Corbyn ally Salford’s Rebecca Long-Bailey, saying:
”We need to recognise that politics has changed in a fundamental way by electing a different kind of leader. More of the same will lead to more of the same result.”
