Oh dear. With Rebecca Long-Bailey widely touted as Jeremy Corbyn’s far-left successor, the Labour MP will be hoping to use this election campaign to show that she’s got what it takes to lead a party. So, it was a curious decision by Long-Bailey to appear on today’s Sunday Politics but refuse to answer any questions.
Given that the questions Andrew Neil threw at her centred on policy (a topic Labour brains say has not been given enough attention), it was somewhat surprising that Long-Bailey declined to be drawn on any details of the Labour policies revealed in the party’s leaked draft manifesto. Instead, it made for an awkward ten minutes as she refused to say much at all:
AN: The national grid, you’re also going to nationalise that, it carries our electricity round the country. It’s got a market capitalisation of £40bn. Why do you want to nationalise that?
RLB: Well, again Andrew, I’m not going to speculate on leaks.
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