Left-wing Labour backbencher Ian Lavery has said the Labour a party “risks dying with Keir Starmer” as the row over blocking Andy Burnham from standing as an MP continues.<\/p>\n
Writing on Facebook, Lavery said: “The claim that blocking the Mayor of Greater Manchester from seeking selection in a parliamentary by\u2011election will prevent a “Westminster psychodrama” is, frankly, discombobulating.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Far from calming anything, it reveals a profound nervousness at the very top of the party.”<\/p>\n
He goes on to say: “Preventing Andy Burnham from standing does not demonstrate strength or discipline; it signals weakness. It shows a leadership more concerned with shielding the most unpopular prime minister in modern British history than with even attempting to understand the scale of anger in the country.”<\/p>\n
He criticised the “endless U-turns” made by the government, and said Labour was on “political life support”.<\/p>\n
Eviscerating the top of the party, Lavery said: “If something doesn\u2019t change, and change quickly, the consequences will be existential.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“A party born with Keir Hardie risks dying with Keir Starmer.”<\/p>\n
Keir Hardie was a founder of the Labour party and became its first leader in 1906.<\/p>\n
Lavery is a regular critic of the prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Left-wing Labour backbencher Ian Lavery has said the Labour a party “risks dying with Keir Starmer” as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-266356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}