The Labour leadership race is rapidly turning sour. None of the warnings from party grandees are denting Jeremy Corbyn’s support, so talk has turned back to whether candidates should drop out. Yvette Cooper’s campaign has called for Andy Burnham to quit the race. ‘If he isn’t prepared to offer an alternative to Jeremy, he needs to step back and leave it to Yvette’, a spokesman said last night.
On the Today programme this morning, Burnham hit back at this idea, arguing that ‘some of the language needs to be more considered than it is’ and defended his position in the race:
‘I find this call disappointing but actually quite strange, given that all the other leadership camps all agree, and they’ve gone on the record to say this, I’m in second place … if we let this bad blood, as you describe it, and negativity take over, this party will be harder to unite coming out of this contest and that is what I’m focused on.
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