Ex-spin doctor Alastair Campbell says a Corbyn-led Labour party is a ‘long way off’ winning an election
Campbell also described his “revulsion” that anti-Semitism has been allowed to 'fester' in the party
A JEREMY Corbyn-led Labour party is a “long way from where we need to be” to win a general election, according to Tony Blair’s ex-spin doctor.
Alastair Campbell hit out as “huge swathes of the country” can’t accept “this Labour Party” in Number 10.
In a hard-hitting speech to centre-left pressure group Progress, he said: “If we cannot beat this shambles of a Tory party, we don’t deserve to be in the game.”
His comments came after a mixed night of results for Labour in the local elections taking control in Plymouth but failing to take Barnet.
He also described his “revulsion” that anti-Semitism has been allowed to “fester” in the party.
It has also emerged that Labour’s vote dropped dramatically in wards with large Jewish populations while competing for seats on Barnet council.
Analysis of the ballot result in the sought-after Barnet council showed the party’s vote fell by an astonishing 26 per cent in the Garden Suburb ward where the Jewish population is 38 per cent.
Another ward - Mill Hill - with a Jewish population of 19 per cent, the Labour vote fell by 24 per cent.
Figures also show the Oakleigh ward, with a nine per cent Jewish population, saw a 15 per cent drop in the vote compared to elections four years ago.
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