Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid interviewed Lisa Nandy MP on a live video link from London about her position in the Labour leader race. Last night, Jess Phillips MP dropped out of the Labour leadership race and now there are only four candidates to front Labour Party and take over from Jeremy Corbyn MP.
The presenters were keen to find out what Nandy would score Corbyn out of ten for his efforts during the election.
“If you don’t mind me saying, that is the daftest question,” Nandy replied. “Human beings are complex and Jeremy Corbyn is no exception.”
Morgan stated: “The electoral gave him half out of ten, he got one of the biggest drubbings in history of elections. There’s no getting away from that, the Labour party was absolutely annihilated.”
“Voting for people and rating them is part of the electoral process!” Reid remarked.
“The challenge now for the Labour party is who’s going to be electable. You can all talk as much as you like about what you would do, but without power it is meaningless!” Morgan ranted on.
“How are you going to be - if you win this race - how are you going to get elected?
“How are you going to persuade the electorate you’re not full of hot air like I assume Corbyn to be, you’re full of meaningful substance, going to improve their lives enough to make them vote for you?” He continued.
“I think first of all you have to show a level of humility about what’s just happened. In parts of the world like mine we have just seen an entire Labour base collapse - there is no question we have got this wrong,” Nandy explained.
“And we have to accept for a lot of people Labour has been moving away from them for a very long time.”
As for how she thinks her party could win the next election, Nandy added: “Labour has to go out and show we are ambitious about this country.
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