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Caron Lindsay

Tim Farron to Angela Eagle: If you aren’t going to oppose Tory Little Britain economic vandalism, there’s no point in challenging Corbyn

By Caron Lindsay | Sun 10th July 2016 - 10:25 am

As Angela Eagle prepares to launch her leadership challenge against Jeremy Corbyn, Tim Farron has taken a wee wander down Memory Lane and has found evidence from 2008 when she rubbished Vince Cable’s predictions of what we thought then was an economic storm.

Tim now says that she needs to take heed of the many voices who are wanting Labour to support continuing membership of the EU. If Labour are not prepared to do that, then, he says, there is no point in changing leader.

He has a number of questions for her:

The big issue for any Labour challenger is what will they do to reverse Jeremy Corbyn’s lack of leadership on our membership of the EU.

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Mark Pack

Ed Miliband certainly got one thing right in his reshuffle

By Mark Pack | Tue 11th October 2011 - 8:25 am

Though others are viewing the demotion of Angela Eagle from Shadow Chief Secretary as a move by Ed Miliband to clip the wings of Ed Balls, it does mean Miliband has sacked from his Treasury team one of the Labour MPs with the most dramatically wrong track-records when it comes to economic predictions.

Keeping her well away from future economic policy it would seem is no bad move at all on Ed Miliband’s part.

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