The Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy believes her leader is offering “incompetent out-of-power socialism”.
McDonnell neglected to mention the hundreds of contracts that Labour entered into.
The Shadow Chancellor tells the universities and technology sector that “help is on the way” (as the Marx Brothers put it in “Duck Soup”).
During Labour’s conference week, we take a look at prominent Labour MPs’ views of their leader, in their own words.
She says that it must end after Brexit.
He says it’s “in the air and that is down to one man”.
The Labour leader also wouldn’t say whether he’d rule out backing illegal strike action.
Plus: Osborne’s regrets, vintage Heseltine – and, after Germany, to Brighton, for what is claimed to be the biggest conference Labour has ever held.
Plans to give much more time for rank-and-file speeches may be why Khan and Burnham are having a hard time getting speaking slots.
He commits his party to support open borders.
His style and tone have got a bit better – but the content is still the fundamental problem.