Group representing poorer constituencies say leader is ‘not speaking to the country’ and is turning absent from unionsJeremy Corbyn’s speech to the Labour party conference was criticised by some MPs representing northern English constituencies who said he had made a “self-indulgent speech that was not talking to the country”.
Speaking at a packed fringe,organised by the thinktank ResPublica, a group of northern MPs representing poorer constituencies raised concerns over the tenor of the speech and its content and worried that the “white working classes” would be left cold by the rhetoric.
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Source: theguardian.com