Latest updates from Brighton as former party leader publishes stinging critique of his successor
- David Lammy defends Angela Rayner’s Conservative ‘scum’ remarks
- Labour inverts Blair’s ‘tough on crime’ slogan to take on Tories
- Sabotage claims as shadow minister quits in row with Labour leadership
- McDonald’s abrupt resignation shatters show of unity
Ian Murray, the shadow Scottish secretary, has described Andy McDonald’s resignation yesterday as looking like “planned sabotage”. He told BBC Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland:
We’re not quite sure why [McDonald] resigned yesterday, he seems to have said one thing and written another. That looks as if it might be a planned sabotage of conference, rather than it being about any principle.
This was a policy, don’t forget, that Andy McDonald and the shadow cabinet wrote, he put through shadow cabinet and he launched with much acclaim in the conference hall 48 hours before he resigned.
Labour is demanding that the minimum wage is immediately raised to at least £10 per hour for all workers and will continue to evaluate what a real living wage should be.
Labour will continue to assess how to deliver its commitment to raising the national living wage to ensure that it is adequate and addresses the rise in the cost of living and inflation since 2019.
