As someone responsible for Labour’s catastrophic defeat in December 2019, which has enabled the Tories to inflict chaos on our society and harm on the most vulnerable people for the last four years, John McDonnell has some brass neck to be lecturing Keir Starmer on how to win an election.
He began his article (Starmer must say what he’ll do in power – if he leaves a vacuum, the far right will fill it, 4 January) disingenuously, by insinuating that Labour’s current popularity over the Tories is “part of a natural cycle”, rather than what is in fact an astonishing comeback, due in no small measure to Starmer’s efforts to expose the Tories’ unfitness for government.
