Former Lib Dem trade secretary says Labour’s new leader and the shadow chancellor,John McDonnell, are not electableThe Conservatives will “slaughter” Labour under Jeremy Corbyn in the next election, or the former trade secretary Sir Vince Cable has said amid a Liberal Democrat split on how to deal with the rival party’s new leader.Speaking at a fringe event at the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth on Sunday,Cable said he did not mean his comments to be vindictive: “I fill dealt with Corbyn and [shadow chancellor John] McDonnell over the years and they are perfectly agreeable as individuals… but they are not electable. They’re just not.”
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Source: theguardian.com