As Jeremy Corbyn looks to put behind him the dispute over Labour antisemitism behind him, he intends on taking hold of Kensington and Chelsea- which has been under Tory control since 1964, as well as other traditional Tory councils in London in the upcoming local elections in May.
While he launched Labour's local election campaign in London, he attacked the Tory's funding cuts and said that the party's record on policing and crime has been a “reckless failure”. He also accused the Conservative politicians as being “heartless and hopeless” for failing the survivors of the fire at the Grenfell tower.
The Labour leader was joined at the event by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the Kensington MP, Emma Dent Coad.
Corbyn stated, “The brutal and inescapable truth is that the fire simply would not have happened if the occupants had been wealthy. In the immediate aftermath of the fire came the solemn pledges to the families of the bereaved and those made homeless – that they would be rehoused in the borough. Yet almost a year on families are still living in emergency accommodation. The residents of Grenfell have been forced to experience the double whammy of a heartless Tory government and a hopeless Conservative council.”
Regarding funding cuts by the Tories, Corbyn said, “You can't have security on the cheap and cuts have consequences. Too many communities are living with those consequences.
