but for len m cclus key to millions of people but for len mccluskey to come out as is done and saidephen to say, he's a lwa ys referendum. for stephen to say, he's always backed a version of theresa may's deal, if only we'd done that, thatis may's deal, if only we'd done that, that is nonsense. the public make up their minds over lots of wings and one of them in this election without a doubt was the state of today's labour party underjeremy corbyn and the influence of momentum. what we need to return to is the massive disconnection between the labour party and its bedrock support, these working class voters we discussed earlier. a lot of these voters would no longer classify themselves as working class. the middle classes expanded across country. let's call them the more economically disadvantaged, the socio—economic groups that belong to the torah rather than the richer. there is a statistician who works for the financial times whose run the numbers since the election. —— poorer. he says it's wrong to suggest the disconnection between that group and the labour party began with the

len mccluskey, one of the most important players in the labour movement as the...says the people who have been sniping at corbyn for years, and he has you in his sights, do it because they are constantly hankering after a new labour past. they will not and have not accepted corbyn‘s leadership of the party. i've spent this campaign, and i'd rather be able to be honest and look in the mirror and speak, rather than... it's time to do that because the labour party that you claim to have loved all your life is an existential crisis. exactly. so when i look in the mirror, i can say to myself, honestly, i've always had doubts about jeremy corbyn, i've always had doubts about this route... and i spent this campaign going around the country trying, we failed, trying to persuade people to vote tactically because i felt it had reached a point where labour couldn't get a majority but the only possibility now of any hope of a second referendum was to actually stop johnson getting a big majority. now, did that therefore play a part in his majority? maybe it did. none of us know

len mccluskey will retire, so finished.attle for the leadership of unite is important. progressives ce ntre—left unite is important. progressives centre—left progressives running the trade union movement would change the ballot‘s power inside the labour movement. is it a possible thing that the unions will be run by summary that the unions will be run by summary from the centre—left? that the unions will be run by summary from the centre-left? yes, mccluskey only got re—elected a tiny margin. that organisation is one—way. look at the ways the corbyn knights targeted all mps for reselection and most of the mps got reselected. i don't think any deselection is were successful. the thing about politics is the obsession with party politics is one thatis obsession with party politics is one that is understandable for somebody like me, but there is a battle of ideas out there, so 18 months ago we'd never heard of greta thunberg. now, climate extinction, climate rebellion, climate change is so much on the agenda. corporates are tak

, the leader of unite, and ed miliband, because it is len mccluskey who was responsible for putting edlfour, against his brother. we then had a really dismal four, five years. you can't blame ed miliband for not winning? what i can blame ed miliband for is the fact he change the rules for the election of the leader, which paved the way for jeremy corbyn. len mccluskey bears the greatest responsibility of anybody for the situation the labour party now faces. it is he who has brought together a block of trade union leaders in the labour party to secure jeremy corbyn's union leaders in the labour party to securejeremy corbyn's base and has propped him up. i have not heard from him at all this morning or this afternoon. jeremy corbyn in many ways has been a cipherfor a whole group of other people who have been pretty u npleasa nt group of other people who have been pretty unpleasant and are now extraordinarily saying, and we have heard from richard burgin, the almost invisible shadow justice secretary, this morning was prattling away trying to explain this on all sorts of factors other tha

hour ago on the show, jack straw had very strong words for the role that len mccluskey had played, he from our colleague nick hurley who said that len mccluskey blames the incontinent rush of policies which appear to offer everything to everyone immediately, failure to apologise for anti—semitism, immediately, failure to apologise foranti—semitism, shadow immediately, failure to apologise for anti—semitism, shadow cabinet ministers back in remain and undermining the brexit stance. he said it is jeremy undermining the brexit stance. he said it isjeremy corbyn‘s metropolitan world—view. curiously, i remember interviewing him at couple of years ago, and he talked about the anti—semitism question is being music, i do not know if that isa being music, i do not know if that is a phrase which has left its mark with you, but, jonathan, a sense now, i guess it is inevitable that eve ryo ne now, i guess it is inevitable that everyone is checking blame as fast as they can and distancing themselves, do you see len mccluskey as part of this problem? absolutely, what is different from the 19705 and

the general secretary of the unite union, len mccluskey, who's a close ally ofjeremy corbyn, said thedisappointing. well, it is obviously a deeply, deeply disappointing result. a huge disappointment and it is pretty avid in attempting to go beyond brexit, which was the challenge for labour, we failed. unfortunately, our labour heartland, working—class heartland in the north and midlands that voted leave they undoubtedly felt that labour had let them down and we were not able to convince that the other issues and the consent that they had would only be dealt with a labour government and my worst fears have come true. it was always labour's achilles heel and our message was a lwa ys achilles heel and our message was always come home to labour but that didn't breakthrough is an out we will have to reflect on where we go from here stop should jeremy corbyn stand down now? well he has indicated he will be standing down. of course, he should not do it right away. he has to preside over reflections. the defeat of this scale will always bring with it and element of worries and possible recrim