U.K. Labour Party Is Split as Officials Aims to Stem Bloodbath
- Corbyn and headquarters said to pursue separate strategies
- Tension between bid for victory and reduced losses, people say
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Britain’s opposition Labour Party has at least two plans to fight the election Prime Minister Theresa May called on Tuesday. And one of them doesn’t involve trying to win.
Even as leader Jeremy Corbyn campaigns for victory on June 8, officials in the party’s headquarters see him as a liability and are focused instead on minimizing the scale of defeat, according to two people familiar with the strategies, who spoke on condition of anonymity.