‘I did everything I could to bring Corbyn down’, ex-Labour elections head says

Harry Burns, the former head of elections for the Labour Party, said he did “everything he could” to bring Jeremy Corbyn down after his remarkable success in 2017.

Speaking to Nigel Farage on GB News, the former Labour man said he resigned after it became clear that the former leader of the opposition was getting close to power – and then worked on his demise.

Corbyn was just 2,227 votes away from a chance of being prime minister in 2017, with just seven knife-edge seats tilting the balance in favour of Theresa May, who had to lean on the DUP to prop up her government.

By 2019, however, press hostility towards Corbyn had become so extreme that the Labour leader faced a daunting uphill battle.

Hostility within his own party had also grown, with Labour’s former head of elections freely admitting that he did everything in his power to bring Corbyn down.

Burns – who states in his LinkedIN profile that he helped deliver “one of the most unexpected election results in recent times” – spoke to Farage about how people within the party set out to orchestrate Corbyn’s demise.

“Fortunately he is no longer a Labour MP”, he said.

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Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.