Jess Phillips’ campaign slogan is ‘speak truth, win power’, but in yesterday’s party hustings, she seemed to think that the extent of the truth that the Labour Party needs to hear is that it needs to win elections again and it had a few duff ideas in its manifesto that voters didn’t believe. The candidate herself didn’t appear happy with her performance when she popped up on Pienaar’s Politics this morning, confessing: ‘I think that maybe I have started to decline in telling people what they don’t want to hear a little bit and I decided yesterday after the hustings the I’m going to actually just be myself again.’
She accused her party of being ‘a bit dour’ and suggesting that ‘things are really terrible in the country and that is absolutely true, but the truth is we’re not going to get anywhere unless we talk to people that things can get better’.
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