Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has made her strongest statement yet on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
Writing in her regular column for the Daily Record, she says that – while she respects Corbyn personally – she does not believe that he can continue as leader without the support of the majority of Labour MPs.
I won 72% of the vote from when I was elected leader, but if the vast majority of my MSPs didn’t have confidence in me then I couldn’t do my job. I don’t see how Jeremy can do his. With Jeremy as leader the chances of a UK Labour government in the near future are slim at best and non-existent at worst.
The choice that Labour members and supporters have at this leadership election is whether we want to be a party of government with real policies that can change people’s lives, or a party purely of protest that can say what it is against but not what it is for.
Dugdale has also just announced that Labour’s only Scottish Mp, Ian Murray, who resigned from Corbyn’s cabinet as shadow Scottish Secretary, has been appointed to her cabinet as Scottish Labour’s Westminster spokesperson.
Source: The Guardian
