Liz Kendall is continuing to push herself as the ‘change everything’ candidate for the Labour leadership. During a speech at Reuters this morning, Kendall called for the party to make a big shift on fiscal responsibility if it has any hope of winning the next election — a task some think is beyond Labour in its current state:
‘If we continue to stick with the politics that we had at the last election or, indeed, over the last seven or eight years, we will get the same result. Einstein said the definition of madness was to continue doing the same thing over and over again and expect to get a different result. We need big changes. It’s not just that people didn’t trust us with the economy or with their taxes, or that we didn’t have a positive alternative that everyone can feel part of; people don’t think that we share their values of hard work, responsibility and taking care of yourself and your family.’
Echoing the words of one of her supporters John Woodcock, Kendall continued to talk the language of change and suggest that the candidates Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper aren’t sufficiently committed to it:
‘People need to think about ‘who is the leadership candidate that isn’t just going to argue for a little bit of change, who is going to face up to the scale of the challenge, who is going to be the candidate that the Tories really fear because they are facing head on people’s concerns about their money, about welfare and have a properly broad pitch.
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