Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Then again when you look at leadership rival Andy Burnham's flip flop on the Welfare Bill – saying "we can't simply abstain" before abstaining from the vote on the cuts – maybe another U-turn is possible."I'm interested in ideas and how we go forward, and I want hope and excitement. Once they understand that, these MPs, they'll be happier," he says. It seems like a classic Corbyn answer – it's conciliatory to the point of sounding almost naïve, but underlying it is the need to make the right noises to a side of the party that makes no secret of hating him.
Advertisement
Advertisement