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Labour can't go back to 'failed status quo,' warns new MP Navendu Mishra
Stockport MP Navendu Mishra

A LABOUR MP has said that there is no going back to a “failed status quo” after numerous former Blairite politicians demanded a “fundamental change” in Labour’s direction.

In a letter published in The Observer, seven former MPs and four former parliamentary candidates said that they are “devastated” for their constituents who are “still struggling under a Tory government.”

They said: “It is our duty to speak up now, so that our leadership candidates keep these people at the heart of their campaigns to lead our party.”

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