Alan Johnson – 2023 Comments on Jeremy Corbyn and the 2019 General Election

The comments made by Alan Johnson, the former Labour Home Secretary, on the Sweeney Talks podcast published on 9 January 2023.

[On the 2019 General Election loss for Labour]

It was Corbyn. You could feel it in Hull, I wasn’t a candidate then, this was 2019, but you can feel it. Working class people are not going to be talked to as if they’ve one of the masses, as if they have no agency themselves, as if they need someone middle class from Islington to lead them out. This type of philosophy that Corbyn is steeped in has always been there, it’s in the trade union movement.