I’ll take Labour even further Left says MP in leader bid

LABOUR’S Clive Lewis launched his leadership bid last night, pledging to take the party even further to the Left.

The shadow Treasury minister insisted Labour lost the election because it failed to convince voters it had made a decisive break with the Blair era.

The ‘legacy of the 2000s’ was more unpopular on the doorstep than Jeremy Corbyn and his policies, he claimed.

Launching his bid in The Guardian, Mr Lewis pledged to go further than Mr Corbyn in giving party members a say on policy and the selection of MPs. He said Labour had suffered ‘its own Dunkirk’, but it was possible to come back by bringing hope and reforming the party.

The Norwich South MP, who is not considered a frontrunner, criticised Mr Corbyn’s lack of leadership’ over Brexit.

The Independent Group for Change is to start winding up as a political party following its failure to take any seats at the General Election, its leader Anna Soubry has said.

The ex-Tory minister said it had been hard to ‘cut through as a distinctive political force’ since its February inception.

Some 7 Labour and three Tory MPs formed the TIG – known as Tiggers – before five switched again to join the Lib Dems.