Who should be the next labour leader?

Labour will remain unelectable with her as leader. She will be viewed as continuity Corbyn. @Burnley123

@LukeTheDuke Corbyn's policies were popular. She is a, Northern working class woman with a lot less baggage. Though of course, the Guardian are already smearing her.

There were too many policies - everything from a 4 day week to free broadband. Cash for every single problem from the nhs to waspi women, schools, climate change, police, local authorities, council houses, higher living wage, tuition grants, etc - people just couldn’t perceive all this as being possible or affordable. Unfortunately, anyone mildly past the soft left of the party will be denigrated so viciously they just won’t stand a chance, and that certainly includes Long-Bailey, already being mocked as Rebecca Wrong-Daily @Burnley123

@LukeTheDuke The manifesto was too long. 2017 won us votes.

Its not about anyone to the left of soft left, it happened to brown and Miliband.

I wouldn’t include Brown as an example of Labour’s decline. It was the economic crash that lost him the election, if that hadn’t if happened he may well have succeeded. @Burnley123

@LukeTheDuke perhaps, though the labour vote declined every election between 1997 and 2015. The only person to buck that trend was Corbyn in 2017, who added ten points.

Theresa May was so bad in 2017, that she gifted labour several points, particularly scaring her core voters that they may have to sell their homes to pay for social care. 2017 does not provide a good enough explanation of how Labour can be popular again. @Burnley123

@LukeTheDuke May still got over 42%, which is normally a winning margin. Some credit needs to be given to what corbyn did well back then.

Yes, point taken. I suppose one of the most attractive labour policies that motivated young voters was the promise to wipe out student debt. @Burnley123