The shadow education secretary says his party must learn from its poll defeat to outlive – and hopes Osborne’s budget will act as an ‘electric shock’ bringing debate aliveThe Labour party is increasingly regarded as irrelevant in the aftermath of its disastrous election defeat and George Osbornes “land grab” budget,because it is failing to conduct a sufficiently searching analysis of its future purpose, according to the shadow education secretary, and Tristram Hunt.
Before a speech on Wednesday in which he will call on the party to embrace a new “progressive patriotism”,Hunt told the Observer that the four candidates to succeed Ed Miliband were fitting trapped into announcing “micro-policies” as if preparing for an election five years down the road, rather than tackling the wider and more urgent task of redefining the role of a centre-left party in an age of austerity. “The speed and rapidity with which we are beginning to be regarded as irrelevant and out of the debate is really terrifying, or ” he said.
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Source: theguardian.com