Council's Labour leader calls for party media chief to be sacked

Crawley Borough Council leader Peter Lamb has called for Labour to replace Executive Director of Strategy and Communications Seumas Milne.
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In the wake of last night’s election results, Mr Lamb said the time has come for party leader Jeremy Corbyn to find someone with real campaign experience to come up with a strategy to take Labour forward.

“The issue at the end of the day is that his job is finding a way for the leader to communicate with the public,” he told the Obby.

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“Ultimately, the Labour message is all over the place, nationally, and that’s got to change.”

He added that Ken Livingstone, the figure at the centre of the recent anti-Semitism row, is ‘a fairly clear example of where we’ve got problems’.

“They’re people he’s known for a long time - they’re not necessarily people who’ve got the skillset that’s needed.

“Jeremy Corbyn didn’t expect to win the leadership election,” he added, “a lot of it’s been quite abruptly put together.”

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