Ian Byrne, new Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby, tells the @socialistcam rally that there should be "no going back to the incestuous relationship with Murdoch and MPs writing in a paper that promotes division, hatred and lying about an entire city".
Jon Trickett MP says: "There are people advising the new leadership to play the long game" and "limit their criticism to government incompetence" – but "restricting our opposition in that way cannot be the position of the left".
Ian Lavery: "Abandon the 2017 and 2019 suite of policies? We abandon them at our peril. Because people widely accepted the wonderful array of policies in both of those elections... How dare anybody, particularly in our own party, suggest that we were too generous in our offer?"
John McDonnell says Rishi Sunak has "stolen some of our ideas but he’s absolutely crap at delivering them".
McDonnell: "We’ll hold that party leadership to account. But let’s not outsource our politics to any leader." The task now is to "build the movement" – by resisting evictions (as Momentum announced today) and asking questions like "Why does landlordism exist in our country?"
Jeremy Corbyn: "I haven’t read all the books that have been written about the past five years... But I simply say to those people who are offering coffee table analysis: forget the tittle-tattle, forget the gossip, forget the nonsense."
Socialist Campaign Group rally largely centred on policy rather than criticising the new leadership – like Momentum's evictions ban focus, there is a strong feeling that Labour left should be talking most about a zero Covid strategy, the climate crisis and Black Lives Matter.
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