Alastair Campbell says he will not be a part of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour because it ‘no longer represents his values’

Alastair Campbell has said he no longer wants to be a Labour member because Jeremy Corbyn is set to destroy the party and will never win an election against Boris Johnson. 

Mr Campbell, the high-profile former communications chief for Tony Blair, said Mr Corbyn would likely suffer defeat in the next vote because the party has a strategy that looks “designed to lose.”

He warned that Mr Corbyn needed to “step up now” to stand any chance of persuading voters to back him and the Labour party. 

Mr Campbell’s comments came after he was expelled for saying on television that he had voted for the Liberal Democrats at the European elections. 

Although he said at the time that he would fight the expulsion, Mr Campbell has now written to Mr Corbyn, explaining that he no longer wishes to stay in the Labour Party. 

According to the Guardian, he wrote: “With some sadness but absolute certainty, I have reached the conclusion that I no longer wish to stay in the party, even if I should be successful in my appeal or legal challenge.”

Addressing Mr Corbyn directly, he writes: “The culture you have helped to create has made the party one that I feel no longer truly represents my values, or the hopes I have for Britain.”

He adds: “I fear the country may have already decided that it does not intend to make you prime minister.”

Mr Campbell, who campaigned for the People’s Vote, added that he had not decided who he would vote for in the next election. 

Mr Campbell’s expulsion was announced in May when he wrote on Twitter: “Sad and disappointed to receive email expelling me from @uklabour – particularly on a day leadership finally seems to be moving to the right place on Brexit, not least thanks to tactical voting by party members, including MPs, councillors and peers who back @peoplesvote-uk.”

He added: “I am and always will be Labour. I voted Lib Dem, without advance publicity, to try to persuade Labour to do right thing for country/party. In light of appeal, I won’t be doing media on this. But hard not to point out difference in the way anti-Semitism cases have been handled.”

The incident sparked the hashtag #expelmetoo on Twitter, as people claimed to be party members who had voted for other parties and dared the party to also expel them. 

Mr Campbell’s partner, journalist Fiona Millar and a former adviser to Cherie Blair, put a call out to party members on social media to alert them if they had also got an expulsion letter from the party’s “central command”.