Oh dear. After a disappointing showing in the local elections on Friday, Jeremy Corbyn needs to win back disillusioned Labour voters who have switched to the Conservatives. So, how’s that going?
Well, if Paul Mason’s appearance on Newsnight is anything to go by then not very well at all. The former Channel 4 economics editor turned revolutionary appeared on the current affairs show to bat for Labour. However he ended up claiming many Tory voters were ‘racist’, in a discussion with Iain Dale:
ID: When I ask voters what it is they like about Theresa May, they can’t explain it — and I think that’s very interesting…
PM: Maybe it was the list of foreign workers. Lists of foreign workers who we’re going to expel from the British work force. That would play quite well against some racist voters…
EM: So, what are you saying: all Tory voters are racist?
PM: Sorry, Amber Rudd, Theresa May… the whole Tory conference was a racist horse and pony show.
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