Gordon Brown has waded into the Labour leadership race, urging the party to become “credible” and “electable” once more.
The former Prime Minister gave a speech this afternoon in which he said that Labour was “grieving” following their election defeat and that they needed to avoid the trap of becoming “a pale imitation of what the Tories offer” or “a party of permanent protest, rather than a party of government.”
However, although he spoke for nearly 50 minutes, Mr Brown did not mention Jeremy Corbyn by name a single time though it seemed his message - that of putting ideological purity above power - was aimed directly at those thinking about voting for the left-wing frontrunner.
Yet, despite the politician’s passionate pleas for his party’s future, not everyone’s focus was on Mr Brown’s message. Throughout his speech, he stormed up and down the stage, leaving some viewers dizzy with his erratic pacing.
