Susanna Reid was joined by former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls on Good Morning Britain as the Strictly Come Dancing star hosted the ITV programme for the first time. The former Labour politician interviewed Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy on his presenting debut as he grilled her over Keir Starmer’s plan to win back Labour voters.
Balls began: “Back in 2019 on the doorstep, anti-Semitism, defending Russia, being soft on terror – doesn’t Keir Starmer need to do more to show there’s been a real change since the Corbyn years?
“Doesn’t it mean people like Jeremy Corbyn and others shouldn’t be coming back into the Labour Party?”
Nandy replied: “I’ve said for a long time Jeremy should apologise I’d like to draw a line on that episode and move forward but that’s up to him.
“I think the bigger question is, has the Labour Party changed? I think it’s absolutely changed over the last couple of years.”
“I remember the day that the Skripal attacks happened in Salisbury,” Nandy continued.
“I remember Theresa May rightly taking action to expel Russian diplomats and I remember the Labour leader prevaricating over that.
“I think it is absolutely clear now over the last couple of years, certainly since I was appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary that we stand up for the interests of this country and the security of this country and we put that at the heart of everything we do.
“We don’t tolerate racism in the Labour Party – we changed the rules at the Labour Party conference, we got a bit of stick from the media about obsessing about our own internal rules.”
“But this is at the core of whether you can trust us and whether we’re fit to given,” Nancy remarked.
“We’ve made big changes over the last couple of years, we’re not there yet but we’re absolutely on the right path.
“We’re seeking the trust once again of people to govern this country.”
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