Thread: A lesson the next Labour leader must learn is that whatever it is it is not going to blow over. Our opponents in the Conservative party, the press and even the PLP will keep flinging whatever mud they can until it sticks and sometimes persistence is enough

In the run up to 2017 the leadership team ducked many issues just to survive until the end of the day. There are lots of conversations about long standing myths we need to start, that they avoided. I think this strategy was vindicated by the 2017 result.

One of the lessons I'm learning in my job is that if you don't deal with something properly it will come back to bite you in the ass later. After 2017 the leadership team had the space to go on the offensive but they never pushed the advantage and it cost us.