FORMER LABOR MP Laura Pidcock has made the claim that Tony Blair was the reason for the loss of her seat in the last election.
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The once rising star of theLabor Partywas tipped as a future leader of the party with the loss of her seat acting as one of the biggest upsets of election night. She wrote: “Vital to learn the lessons of Labor’s general election defeat. “However, the answers will not be found at the door of New Labor’s architects.
“Blair’s legacy still hangs around this party like a millstone, especially in the northeast. I heard it time and time again. ”
Ms Pidcock lost her seat by more than 1, votes, with her seat seeing a ten percent swing towards the Conservatives leaving many to question the impactMr Blaircould have had ten years after his departure.
Her claims Infuriated many in the Labor Party, including former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith who wrote in a fiery Twitter exchange:
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Laura Pidcock has placed the blame for th e defeat with Tony Blair(Image: GETTY)
************************ (The former MP was once tipped as a rising star(Image: GETTY)************************************** “I’m sorry you lost your seat but it was down to the unelectability of the Leader and the project you championed.“You need to own that rather than try to shift the blame to a leader and politics that actually managed to win and change Britain for the better.”
The attack on Mr Blair comes after the former Prime Minister very publicly savaged the Labor Party in a number of media interviews over their election performance.
Speaking on BBC’s Newsnight he outlined his view of the party in the wake of the disastrous election results:
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“The far left that has taken over the Labo ur Party, if they remain in a position of authority, if they’re in charge of the Labor Party going forward, The Labor Party, I think, is finished. ”
Going further, Mr Blair outlined what in his opinion, needs to change.
He said: “It’s not a question so much of expelling people, it’s a question of taking the Labor Party back for, what I would call, sensible mainstream laborer” politics.
) “And that includes, by the way, a traditional left of the Labor Party.
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“But that traditional left that stands in the shoes of Nye Bevan, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Prescott, that is a different left from these guys. ”The former Prime Minister even insinuated insidious intent to hoard power claiming “the problem with the far left, the people – you know you mentioned some of them just around Jeremy Corbyn and so on – the trouble is, they want to take the Labor Party over.
“They’ve been engaged in a four-year process of taking it over. They’re not gonna share power. ”
The infighting continues after what was Labor’s lowest election result since 823, the opposition party sensationally lost swathes of support in traditional labor heartlands turning over some seats that had never gone Conservative before.
Mr Corbyn has vowed to quit after a “period of reflection”, saying: “The responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing, and I will not do that. ”
This has left the question as to who will take over the political party with many of the top contenders bitterly competing for a shot at rebuilding the party.
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Currently Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey the current bookmakers’ favorite.
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and the backbenchers Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips – are all understood to be in the running.
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