Rebecca Long-Bailey has made her opening pitch for the Labour leadership, avoiding any direct criticism of Jeremy Corbyn but implicitly offering an alternative approach by promising to champion “progressive patriotism”. In her first substantive comments on the election result, the party’s worst in terms of seats won since 1935, the shadow business secretary used an article for UK newspaper the Guardian to say Labour’s “compromise solution” on Brexit was partly to blame, but that trust was also an issue.
Few months ago, then PM's unofficial deputy David Lidington mocked Rebecca Long-Bailey facing him at PMQs, as Emily Thornberry sat on opposition benches.
Lidington warned Rebecca Long-Bailey that she risked being ‘airbrushed out of Politburo history’ if her performance was deemed too effective.
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