The former political secretary to Tony Blair has strongly criticised Jeremy Corbyn’s role in the Labour Party’s disastrous general election loss in December 2019.
Speaking with talkRADIO’s Ian Collins, John McTernan said: “The Labour Party needs to confront head on the fact that the manifesto in 2017, 2019, and actually in 2015 was too left wing for the British people.
“It’s got to confront the fact that the Labour Party brand has been tainted, probably poisoned by the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.”
It comes after a damning report into Labour’s historic election defeat, which concluded that a mixture of “toxic culture”, Mr Corbyn’s leadership and organisational failures were to blame.
Mr McTernan added that he was more optimistic about the party’s prospects under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer, saying he brings “competence and an ability to unsettle Boris Johnson”.
