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| Ed Miliband |
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Labour
leader failing to communicate with voters, Damian McBride claims
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Former
spin doctor says Mr Miliband has no persuasive policies
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Also
attacked Labour's refusal to apologise for its record in office
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Today's
attack comes in updated version of McBride's tell-all memoirs
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He
was spin doctor for Gordon Brown but quit over a plot to smear Tories
Ed Miliband’s
‘totally dysfunctional’ leadership tonight comes under extraordinary attack
from former Labour spin doctor Damian McBride.
In an updated version of his sensational tell-all memoirs,
Mr McBride warns Labour has ‘no clear idea’ of who it is trying to appeal to
and a ‘great, steaming pile of fudge’ instead of key policies.
He says Mr Miliband, with whom he worked for years in the
Treasury, has ‘managed to blend the worst of Tony Blair’s “me against the
world” isolation with the worst of Gordon Brown’s “they’re out to get me”
paranoia.’
In an apparent swipe at Ed Balls, another former ally, he
says Labour has yet to persuade voters that ‘we’ve learnt our lesson’ by
admitting where ‘the last government screwed up’.
The shadow Chancellor
has resisted all advice to concede Labour’s mistakes during its 13 years in
power.
Mr McBride concludes:
‘Labour currently has no clear idea who its target audience is, no positive
messages to communicate to anyone about why they should vote for the party, no
policies which will persuade them, and is being run in a totally dysfunctional
way.’
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