ANALYSIS
THE divisions within Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party were on display again during what was a disastrous week for the party.
Spin doctors attempted to relaunch the leader’s image in the hope that voters would view him as an anti-establishment figure.
What ensued was dubbed a “day of chaos” as Corbyn was forced into two embarrassing policy U-turns on immigration and high pay. It did
not end there. Corbyn appeared to undermine Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale by rejecting her keynote plan for a new federal structure for the UK, saying: “I would not use the words new Act of Union.”
The week came to a close with the resignation of Stoke-on-Trent MP Tristram Hunt, which forced the opposition leader to deny he had lost control of his party.
Labour is fighting for survival, both in its two Westminster by-elections and at the council elections in May.
If the party is unable to unite, its prospects of victory at the ballot box will remain gloomy.