Diane Abbott recently made her second faux pas at a television interview where she grossly underestimated Labour's local election losses. She said the party has suffered a net loss of 50 seats, and was corrected by the interviewer, who informed that the Labour was down by 125 seats. She told the interviewer at ITV that “well the last time I looked we had net losses of a hundred but obviously this is a moving picture.”
She had recently got branded for her interview at a television channel as 'most excruciating' when she muddled figures about Labour's promise to introduce 10,000 additional police officers. When asked how much the policy would cost, he told LBC “well, erm... if we recruit the 10,000 policemen and women over a four-year period, we believe it will be about £300,000. No. I mean... sorry. They will cost... they will, it will cost, erm, about £80 million.”
Former Labour Advisor Kevin Meagher branded her performance 'unforgivable' and the interview an example of what 'unprofessional politics' looks like – stating that the policies were being ridiculed because of the manner in which the shadow home secretary presented it.
Labour candidates, including those close to Jeremy Corbyn are airbrushing him from election campaign literature of more than a dozon of his shadow ministers, as they seek to avoid a Tory landslide. Rebecca Long-Bailey, right, and Richard Burgon are among those who have failed to mention the labour leader in the recent campaign literature. Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary has failed to mention the Labour leader once in a two page election leaflet. Shadow secretary of trade, Barry Gardiner have also missed his reference in leaflets.
Labour surrendered 320 seats last week, and Labour's local election candidates blamed Corbyn is "radioactive" on the doorstop. This margin, if replicated at next month's general elections will spell a huge victory for Theresa May.
Andrew Percy, the Northern Powerhouse Minister told The Telegraph, “Jeremy Corbyn’s closest allies are trying to take voters for fools by airbrushing their nonsensical and embarrassing leader out of election leaflets – but voters won’t fall for it.
“It is a simple fact that any vote for any Labour candidate anywhere in Britain will be claimed by Jeremy Corbyn as a vote for him and his failed, disastrous and dangerous ideas.
“Putting him in Downing Street means putting a weak and floundering leader in charge of Brexit negotiations, sitting across the table from 27 EU leaders who have shown they are determined to do a deal that works for them.
"Jeremy Corbyn would embarrass Britain in Brussels, just as he has embarrassed Labour at home. It’s no wonder candidates want nothing to do with him,” he said.
