After Diane Abbott falsely claimed that Labour MP Jonathan Reynolds was a former special adviser on last night’s Newsnight, Reynolds hit back by describing her as a ‘sell-out’. Now — just when it seemed Labour’s in-fighting couldn’t get much worse — Ken Livingstone has appeared on the Daily Politics to offer his take on the incident.
Asked if Abbott was wrong to falsely claim that Reynolds used to be a spad, Livingstone wasn’t so sure. It turns out that the former Mayor of London doesn’t always think it is a bad thing to insult someone live on television with false information. Instead, the real problem here is of course Blairism:
‘Diane is responding to this wave of backstabbing by this disaffected little group of old uber-Blairites.’
.@ken4london tells @Jo_Coburn there's been a "wave of backstabbing" in Labour by "disaffected uber-Blairites" #bbcdp https://t.co/7gjCZ1VOQ0
— BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics (@daily_politics) January 7, 2016
There you have it folks, Ken Livingstone — Labour’s voice of reason.
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