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Last night the Labour MP Alison McGovern posted this on Twitter.
Message to all who would lead Labour. Define yourself by what you believe, not what you reject in others. Find what is good about progressive politics, and show us how you would win over the sceptic. I don’t care what you think about the past. I want to win our country’s future.
For the last four years hard right wingers like you have undermined the Labour Party at every turn.
The Labour right wing lost Labour the 2017 and 2019 general elections.
You are basically a Tory.
one thing I want to come from my leadership campaign: 4 years of attack and hurt within our party from all sides can’t continue. We will not survive. Be clear on what we believe but everyone MUST be clear we’ve got to do it together and do not attack anyone in our party x
The shadow sports minister, Rosena Allin-Khan, has also announced this morning that she is standing to be Labour’s next deputy leader. In a statement the MP for Tooting, who still works as a practising A&E doctor, said the party needed to listen with “humility” to voters who abandoned the party at last month’s general election. She said:
It is vital that we restore trust in the Labour party across the country. It is clear that people did not trust us – we need to accept this fact, evaluate it, and learn from it in order to move forward.
We cannot put words into people’s mouths. Our path back to power involves listening with humility to those former Labour voters who have abandoned the party.
I’m an NHS Doctor, and have spent time working in disaster zones. Lives aren’t valued equally across the world and a person’s worth is measured by their material value.
This drives me to want change – which is why I’m running for Deputy Labour Leader.#TeamRosena pic.twitter.com/WsXgDpR6Zi