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Dominic Cummings took aim at Keir Starmer over Labour s catastrophic defeat in Hartlepool today in a rambling Twitter diatribe that also criticsed his former boss Boris Johnson.
The former Downing Street Svengali gloated that the Opposition leader had spent a year in charge without a message to the country as the party lost a seat it has held for half a century.
Mr Cummings suggested that if Labour had a leader 80 per cent as good at comms as (Tony) Blair and focused on actual reality the party would win the next general election easily , but added: They don t/won t.
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The day Boris blew up Labour: Keir Starmer suffers election bloodbath as Khalid Mahmood quits as shadow minister with attack on London-based bourgeoisie - as Tories say WE RE the true workers party
Tories have overturned 3,500 majority to win by a huge margin of 7,000 votes in the Hartlepool by-election
Shadow minister Jim McMahon conceded hours before result admitting Labour was not close to winning
Civil war in full swing in the part with Corbynites demanding Sir Keir Starmer change tack or step aside
Counting is underway across England after all of the UK went to the polls for Super Thursday elections
The lesson is that you can’t win elections with no political direction or clear policies, he said. Labour also has to be the party rooted in the community it seeks to serve, which only comes from community organising. My only hope is that lessons are learnt.
Starmer has come under criticism over his perceived lack of direction as Labour leader since he started, from both inside and outside his party.
Advertisement This result is a disaster, they said.
This result is a disaster. In 2017, we won over 50% of the vote in Hartlepool. Now it looks like we’ve lost it to the Tories.