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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

Britain risks shift to far right if Labour fails to enact ‘radical change’, says John McDonnell

John McDonnell walks outside BBC Broadcasting House, November 2023 – he is wearing a black coat and is pictured against a stretch of plain, pale stone wall
John McDonnell, a former shadow chancellor, said disillusionment would set in if Labour did not set out ‘a path of radical change’. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

British politics risks an unprecedented shift to the far right as a result of public disillusionment if a Labour government fails to enact radical change, the former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has warned.

Writing in the Guardian, McDonnell said the threat would come not just from Nigel Farage’s resurgent Reform UK but from the return of a Conservative party “shorn” of its moderate wing and dominated by populists.

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