Emily Thornberry, a candidate for the Labour leadership, has said senior advisers should pay the price for the party’s disastrous election showing, rather than the junior workers who are losing their jobs.
The shadow foreign secretary, who declared her candidacy [recently], called for a different approach amid anger among Labour employees that two senior figures, Seumas Milne and Karie Murphy, are still in their posts.
The row over job losses later blew up in the shadow cabinet, as some senior figures raised concerns that they had not even been told in advance that some of their long-serving advisers were being offered redundancy packages by the central party. The Guardian.
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