The party needs to nail Boris Johnson for the liar he is, and mobilise its mass membership with a radical set of policies
- John McDonnell was shadow chancellor from 2015 to 2020
After this week’s performance by the Labour party, I say – more in sorrow than in anger – that we can’t go on like this, something’s urgently got to give.
It’s more than a year since a new leadership was elected, but the Labour response to Boris Johnson’s social care announcement demonstrated starkly just how far the party leadership is from having a strategy to deal with him or knowing how to respond to the new political battleground.