Nick Timothy has blasted the Shadow Home Secretary for making “no sense at all when she speaks”. He added a Labour government run by Jeremy Corbyn after this Thursday’s poll would be a “real danger”. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Timothy said: “They have shut up and locked away senior shadow ministers, like Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry, because they will truthfully tell the country of their intentions to stop Brexit.
“They have hidden Diane Abbott from the cameras, not only because her son was arrested after allegedly biting a police officer, but because she literally makes no sense at all when she speaks.
“And yet she is the shadow home secretary, who in a few days might find herself in charge of the country’s police forces and MI5, which she once said should be abolished.
“The rot in the Labour Party is so bad that several of its former MPs have advised voters to support the Tories. Yet many Labour “moderates” – who in recent years have called Corbyn a racist, a danger to national security and a menace to the economy – are campaigning to save their jobs and put this extremist into No 10. The Brexit Party risks splitting the pro-Leave vote. And, as in the last election, Labour is squeezing the Lib Dem vote hard. A hung parliament – resulting in a Corbyn premiership – is a real danger.”
Ms Abbott faced criticism last month after she posted a “misleading” tweet that was also used in Labour-affiliated advertising.
She tweeted: “Ian Austin, one year as a junior minister at DCLG, says he won’t vote for Labour.
“Wall-to-wall coverage. Ken Clarke, nine years as secretary of state, including as chancellor, says he won’t vote for the Conservatives. Silence. Balanced election coverage?”
But according to independent fact-checking organisation Full Fact, this tweet was deemed incorrect and misleading.
Full Fact said: “While it’s true that the two sets of comments received different levels of media attention, Ms Abbott’s phrasing doesn’t portray them entirely accurately, overstating what Ken Clarke said and implying the two sets of comments to be more similar than they are.
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He wrote: “It wants to nationalise the water companies, energy companies, train companies, broadband providers and Royal Mail, at the cost of untold billions.
“It has promised the most militant trades unions that they will be “in government with us”. It has pledged fantasy policies like a four-day working week, with no idea of what it would do to public services like the NHS, let alone the wider economy.
“And it has invented policies – like the £57billion compensation for women affected by the increase in the state pension age – on the back of a fag packet.”
Meanwhile, Mr Corbyn will be campaigning in the South West today.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell will give a speech on the economy in London.
They will both be driving home their messages on the NHS and the economy.
But Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to target Labour heartlands today.
He is aiming to appeal to Leave voters and switch their allegiance to the Conservative Party.
