Senior Labour MPs urge prime minister to step down within year as party loses control of 25 English councils and humbled in Wales

Mainly sharing for Sadiq Khan’s I think correct take:

“Labour has lost votes in London to a variety of different parties, but the biggest change has been Labour voters switching to the Greens,” Khan said. “Without a change in course and an acceleration in delivery, the threat to Labour is existential. We risk a repeat in London, Wales and across England of what happened in Scotland, where we have still not recovered.”

People often forget that Ken Livingstone showed it was possible for Labour to lose London to a left challenger in 2000. If they think it couldn’t happen again, they’re dreaming.

  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukMEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Her heart’s not in it apparently:

    Well, put it this way, if 81, and I think I’m allowed to count myself, if 80 members of parliament give me their name by Monday, I think that qualifies me to go onto a list of some sort. I haven’t actually even looked at the rules because I don’t actually want to do this. I want the people who have been planning this for years to do it.