:00:07. > :00:14.Tonight on Panorama - the battle for the soul of the Labour Party. The
:00:15. > :00:18.leader, Jeremy Corbyn, adored by his supporters. It's not about an
:00:19. > :00:23.individual, it's about what we collectively as a society want to do
:00:24. > :00:28.and want to achieve. But challenged by his own MPs. The reason I'm
:00:29. > :00:33.standing is I want the Labour Party to survive. We've been on the
:00:34. > :00:36.frontline of Labour's Civil War. The battle for the soul of the Labour
:00:37. > :00:40.Party is going to be fought out in the streets of Brighton Hove. I
:00:41. > :00:44.think we are standing absolutely at the edge of a cliff. It might well
:00:45. > :00:50.be that one or other of the factions or both of us end up going over it.
:00:51. > :00:54.The fight is turning nasty. There has been abuse. There has been
:00:55. > :01:07.bullying. There have been threats. It's real. It's happened to me.
:01:08. > :01:11.Homophobic, sexist, anti-sellic -- Semitic, that's nonsense. Can the
:01:12. > :01:19.party unite or is this the end for Labour? Unless things change
:01:20. > :01:21.radically and rapidly, it's very doubtful that I'll see another
:01:22. > :01:47.Labour Government in my lifetime. Welcome to Brighton, the seaside
:01:48. > :01:56.town with an alternative street. Summer by the sea and it's holiday
:01:57. > :01:59.weather. But here inside Labour's biggest local party, the feuding
:02:00. > :02:08.between left and right has grown bitter. The struggle revolves around
:02:09. > :02:14.Jeremy Corbyn. CHEERING
:02:15. > :02:18.The Labour leader's in town for a leadership campaign rally and so are
:02:19. > :02:21.more than a thousand of his supporters. I think Jeremy Corbyn is
:02:22. > :02:28.perhaps Britain's greatest hope for a genuinely new type of politics.
:02:29. > :02:33.Many of the volunteers here are Momentum members, the grass-roots
:02:34. > :02:38.group fiercely loyal to Corbyn. We are ordinary people who are enthused
:02:39. > :02:42.and who have become active because we've got real hope now. This is a
:02:43. > :02:49.politics of hope. Labour's opinion poll ratings look dismal and he's
:02:50. > :02:52.fighting to stay on as leader. But he's still smiling, counting on
:02:53. > :03:01.Labour's members, whose votes will decide this election. Jeremy is a
:03:02. > :03:05.breath of fresh air. He's actually speaking some sense which is really
:03:06. > :03:10.speaking to the people. United we're very strong. United as a party we go
:03:11. > :03:14.forward to create that decent, better society. Jeremy Corbyn is
:03:15. > :03:20.good at packing out the crowds. They believe in him and many are drawn to
:03:21. > :03:24.his left-wing policies, anti-Trident, anti-tuition fees and
:03:25. > :03:37.renationalising the railways. Great job. I know why I got the job. Zblt
:03:38. > :03:40.Corbyn phenomenon is about timing. Labour's traditional, working-class
:03:41. > :03:44.support has been ebbing away for years. Jeremy Corbyn has built a new
:03:45. > :03:48.base and made it all his own. After all those New Labour compromises and
:03:49. > :03:52.one election defeat too many, they wanted something different. Jeremy
:03:53. > :03:55.Corbyn may have been around for decades, but he's certainly
:03:56. > :04:05.something different. Trouble is most Labour MPs believe he's a hopeless
:04:06. > :04:08.leader and they are out to stop him. Meet the challenger, Corbyn's
:04:09. > :04:14.enemy's are pinning their hopes on him. Hello there. Owen Smith calling
:04:15. > :04:18.from the Labour Party... I think you're better than him. I'm
:04:19. > :04:23.apparently better than the rest, that will do. He was one of more
:04:24. > :04:27.than 170 Labour MPs who declared they had no confidence in Jeremy
:04:28. > :04:33.Corbyn this summer. And today, he's come to Brighton too, campaigning
:04:34. > :04:37.for a council by-election. I fear that the Labour Party is in danger
:04:38. > :04:41.of an historic split. I think this is a battle for the soul of the
:04:42. > :04:46.Labour Party. The reason I'm standing is I want the Labour Party
:04:47. > :04:53.to survive. You're not voting for him? No. Oh, well, never mind. He's
:04:54. > :04:56.won the overwhelming backing of his fellow MPs, who believe Jeremy
:04:57. > :05:02.Corbyn is far too left-wing, unelectable. Beware of the dog,
:05:03. > :05:06.they're always my favourite. We've got to take seriously the fact that
:05:07. > :05:12.the public are moving away from us and that on a whole host of areas
:05:13. > :05:15.for a very long time, on the economy, on immigration, on Social
:05:16. > :05:19.Security we are losing the argument with the public. We have to do much
:05:20. > :05:22.better at going out and making the case to the public for why they
:05:23. > :05:28.should support us. And we haven't done that. But those close to Corbyn
:05:29. > :05:32.argue Labour's growing membership tells a different story. Large
:05:33. > :05:35.numbers of people feel the economy and society is not delivering for
:05:36. > :05:38.them. So they're looking for an alternative. The Labour Party
:05:39. > :05:41.provides that alternative. That's why they're joining us. We're the
:05:42. > :05:46.biggest political party in Europe now. We're now over half a million,
:05:47. > :05:56.nearly 600,000, I think growing all the time. I welcome that. Whoever
:05:57. > :06:04.wins Labour's leadership contest, they're going to have to try to heal
:06:05. > :06:10.the wounds of a brutal few months. Near Brighton, the fight has been
:06:11. > :06:17.particularly dirty. No-one knows that better than local Labour MP,
:06:18. > :06:21.Peter Kyle, a former aide worker and advisor to the Blair Government. He
:06:22. > :06:25.won the seat from the Tories in the 2015 election, one of the few bright
:06:26. > :06:29.spots in a dismal Labour performance. We only have one MP in
:06:30. > :06:37.the south-east beneath London now, that's me. I went through the whole
:06:38. > :06:42.pile. Unfortunately there's a new pile. Peter and his team have an
:06:43. > :06:47.unexpected problem, the local party membership has doubled to 6,000 in
:06:48. > :06:50.just over a year. It's now the biggest in the country and some of
:06:51. > :07:00.those new recruits are out to get him. There's suddenly just this
:07:01. > :07:04.anger, this visceral anger, which is unchannelled and it's unproductive.
:07:05. > :07:09.I'm pushed away from huge sections of the new membership. Democracy is
:07:10. > :07:13.being shut down. Things are so reductionist either you're a
:07:14. > :07:19.Corbynite or you're an enemy. That's not the party that I know and love.
:07:20. > :07:25.Things came to a head last December, when Peter Kyle voted in favour of
:07:26. > :07:28.air strikes on Syria in a free vote. In the days that followed, he
:07:29. > :07:35.received abusive and threatening messages. What I saw during the
:07:36. > :07:41.Syria debate was something that was a shock for me. Within the party
:07:42. > :07:47.there was an almost uncontrollable rage within one bit of it, which was
:07:48. > :07:51.being uncited, by people around the leader, within Momentum, people with
:07:52. > :07:54.axes to grind. Drop into any party meeting in this constituency and
:07:55. > :08:01.Labour's divisions are loud and clear. And they're heart felt. But
:08:02. > :08:06.it strikes me that Jeremy Corbyn's followers are keener on fighting via
:08:07. > :08:15.the social media and I dipped into the Labour Party forum for a week.
:08:16. > :08:23.I'm made of strong stuff, but these deeply horrible misogynyst,
:08:24. > :08:27.anti-Semitic, homophobic, vitriolic, thick and just mean people sent me
:08:28. > :08:31.away. I couldn't stand it. It was messing with my head. There is a
:08:32. > :08:38.slight bit of prejudgment on new members. You automatically assume
:08:39. > :08:41.just because we're coming in and supporting Corbyn, we're Trots or
:08:42. > :08:47.stormtroopers or whatever. We're actually not. What's happening here
:08:48. > :08:50.is a vivid example of what's happening in local Labour Parties up
:08:51. > :08:54.and down the country, MPs pitted against local members, members
:08:55. > :08:58.against each other and the atmosphere's become increasingly
:08:59. > :09:02.poisonous. There has been abuse. There has been bullying. There have
:09:03. > :09:09.been threats. It's real. It's happened to me. It's happened to
:09:10. > :09:13.many of my colleagues. Most party members are thoroughly decent, kind
:09:14. > :09:17.people but there are a small minority who are absolutely
:09:18. > :09:20.determined to silence any alternative voices, any debate, any
:09:21. > :09:27.criticism and the party simply can't survive that. The real worry for me
:09:28. > :09:34.is that it's being used to create an image that the Labour Party is some
:09:35. > :09:39.kind of cesspit, homophobic, sexist, anti-Semitic, this is nonsense. I'm
:09:40. > :09:44.offended that my party is being accused of that in this way. It's
:09:45. > :09:56.all done to try and shift the blame on Jeremy Corbyn. Back in Brighton
:09:57. > :10:01.Hove, the battle for control of Labour has intensified. At July's
:10:02. > :10:05.annual general meeting, a group of Corbyn supporters, backed by
:10:06. > :10:08.Momentum, were elected to key posts. But then, amid hotly contested
:10:09. > :10:12.allegations of bullying, intimidation and vote rigging, the
:10:13. > :10:22.local party was suspended and is now being investigated. Greg Hadfield
:10:23. > :10:26.was elected local party secretary that night before the vote was
:10:27. > :10:30.annulled. A former Daily Mail journalist, he's now one of
:10:31. > :10:42.Brighton's most devoted Jeremy Corbyn supporters. I think I'm a
:10:43. > :10:47.Nescafe socialist. Even though to some he might look a bit like a
:10:48. > :10:53.Conservative. You're not that Tory (BLEEP), are you? No I'm the
:10:54. > :11:00.secretary of the Labour Party, who was suspended. I got 66% of
:11:01. > :11:03.socialist vote and then I got suspended. I thought you were that
:11:04. > :11:10.Tory bloke. Because I'm wearing a jacket. He's off to rally the troops
:11:11. > :11:15.at a meeting organised by Momentum and to turn his fire on the MPs who
:11:16. > :11:20.rebelled against their leader. We're going to say to Jeremy Corbyn, look
:11:21. > :11:23.behind you, you've got 600,000 members supporting you. Don't look
:11:24. > :11:27.over your shoaleder to see 176 people trying to stab you in the
:11:28. > :11:30.back because when he wins in September, we'll be there for him
:11:31. > :11:39.and we'll be there for the Labour Party.
:11:40. > :11:44.APPLAUSE We're now approaching end game, the
:11:45. > :11:48.hidden fractures between the leadership, between MPs, between the
:11:49. > :11:52.members, this is where it's decided. The battle for the soul of the
:11:53. > :11:55.Labour Party will be fought out in the streets of Brighton Hove. I'm
:11:56. > :12:03.determined as a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, we're going to win, because
:12:04. > :12:07.this cannot go on. In the background to this struggle, are two rival
:12:08. > :12:10.visions - those MPs who mostly believe change should be driven
:12:11. > :12:14.through Parliament and on the other side, those left-wingers who want to
:12:15. > :12:25.build, instead, a mass movement way beyond Westminster.
:12:26. > :12:33.Some in Labour see fighting for change outside Parliament as
:12:34. > :12:39.undemocratic, but there's also fear of entryists inside the party,
:12:40. > :12:43.members of far-left groups who've deliberately infiltrated Labour.
:12:44. > :12:50.That's banned under party rules. Brighton is central to these
:12:51. > :12:55.allegations. Ivor used to be an MP here, was a minister in Tony Blair's
:12:56. > :13:00.Government. He's now gathering evidence and attended the July AGM.
:13:01. > :13:06.What we are seeing is clear entryism. We have seen this. We have
:13:07. > :13:11.evidence that people who stood for election on July 9 are members of
:13:12. > :13:14.other organisations, which are prescribed by the Labour Party and
:13:15. > :13:18.have been prescribed since the 1990s. That is completely and
:13:19. > :13:24.utterly unacceptable. These people have hidden it in order to try and
:13:25. > :13:33.gain entryism into the Labour Party and I'm afraid, they have to be got
:13:34. > :13:39.out. Kept out of the party? Yes. Two of those accused of being entryists
:13:40. > :13:45.were elected to the local party's executive committee alongside Greg.
:13:46. > :13:49.The party is still suspended, so meet the Brighton, Hove and District
:13:50. > :13:53.Executive Committee in exile, as they like to call themselves. This
:13:54. > :13:58.one, I stand with Jeremy Corbyn. It's the basic message. Brilliant.
:13:59. > :14:03.Yeah. There's stickers as well. These are the Corbyn for Prime
:14:04. > :14:08.Minister, Corbyn for leader, love socialism sticker. We completely ran
:14:09. > :14:14.out of the national Jeremy Corbyn badges, but we've made more local
:14:15. > :14:19.ones. Phil Clarke stood against Labour five times, including the
:14:20. > :14:25.2015 Council elections. That's banned under Labour's rules. I've
:14:26. > :14:30.been in the social party and stood for trade union and socialist
:14:31. > :14:34.coalition. I did that because I felt that the Labour Party wouldn't again
:14:35. > :14:39.be a voice for working people and the trade unions. I'm not an
:14:40. > :14:42.entryist. I made a personal decision to join the Labour Party. I'm in the
:14:43. > :14:49.a member of any prescribed group in the Labour Party. I want to see a
:14:50. > :14:54.Labour Party that is what it was set up to be, which is the voice of
:14:55. > :15:02.working people through the trade unions in Parliament and that's why
:15:03. > :15:05.I'm a member. Mark Sandell was elected chairman of
:15:06. > :15:11.the local party until it was suspended. He's accused of being an
:15:12. > :15:16.entryist because of his support for the controversial far left group the
:15:17. > :15:20.alliance for workers liberty. It's a socialist organisation, not a party.
:15:21. > :15:24.It publishes a newspaper which, I think, is a very good newspaper, I
:15:25. > :15:37.support. But is he a member of the AWL? We don't have a membership. Is
:15:38. > :15:41.he a Trotskyite entryist? I don't see myself as an entryist. The
:15:42. > :15:44.Labour Party is the place where my politics will be most effective,
:15:45. > :15:48.it's the place where my politics have a history. The Labour Party
:15:49. > :15:51.were founded by great socialists who wanted to get rid of capitalism and
:15:52. > :15:55.change the world. It was also founded bit trade unions, which I've
:15:56. > :15:58.always been a supporter of, where else would I take my politics? I
:15:59. > :16:06.don't think you should ban people because you don't like their ideas.
:16:07. > :16:13.But Panorama understands that both men are under investigation by the
:16:14. > :16:18.national party. They could be banned by Labour for breaching party rules.
:16:19. > :16:22.So many party argue there is nothing to worry about. The Alliance for
:16:23. > :16:27.Workers love the deep, they must be delighted that they keep getting
:16:28. > :16:31.mentioned. There must be half a dozen of them in the whole country!
:16:32. > :16:36.You know the argument, we have seen many on the left, some from groups
:16:37. > :16:40.or other parties once opposed to Labour, coming aboard and joining
:16:41. > :16:44.behind Jeremy Corbyn, so the idea of entryism is not a myth, is it? The
:16:45. > :16:50.vast majority of people who are joining the Labour Party have got
:16:51. > :16:55.nothing to do with Trotskyism or entryism. Of course, there will be
:16:56. > :17:00.handfuls of people who are old hands, who might be regarded as
:17:01. > :17:07.people who have got a different political agenda. But for others,
:17:08. > :17:11.talk of entryism is like a grim echo of the past. Back in the mid-19th
:17:12. > :17:17.80s, the far left group Militant were a party within a party, and
:17:18. > :17:22.Neil Kinnock took them on and won. I am telling you you cannot play
:17:23. > :17:35.politics with people's jobs and with people's services!
:17:36. > :17:39.So has the problem returned? The idea that there are 300,000 or more
:17:40. > :17:44.entryists is absurd. There are people who have returned to the
:17:45. > :17:53.Labour Party who have the objective of securing the control of the
:17:54. > :17:57.movement by the ultraleft. They are well organised, they are
:17:58. > :18:02.experienced, they are obsessive, and they probably exert a
:18:03. > :18:12.disproportionate amount of influence.
:18:13. > :18:22.Early August, and it is Pride weekend. A celebration of gay rights
:18:23. > :18:28.in Brighton. Four MP Peter Kyle, today is a reminder of what Labour
:18:29. > :18:32.can achieve when it is in power. Many of the freedoms that we are
:18:33. > :18:34.celebrating today there were actually granted by a Labour
:18:35. > :18:41.government, the equalisation of the age of consent, gays serving in the
:18:42. > :18:46.military, civil partnerships. But it is divorced that springs to mind
:18:47. > :18:58.when talk turns to Labour's leadership babble. What has
:18:59. > :19:06.genuinely taken me by surprise is that the figures are practically
:19:07. > :19:13.50-50, or 60 for Jeremy, but it is genuinely much closer than I was
:19:14. > :19:16.expecting. Owen Smith has got an exhaustive schedule of touring
:19:17. > :19:21.around, because we are well aware that he needs to raise his profile,
:19:22. > :19:26.he needs to let people know what he stands for, and you know, let's be
:19:27. > :19:35.honest, a lot of people are saying, who is Owen Smith? Momentum is also
:19:36. > :19:42.at Pride, busy signing people up to the Jeremy for Leader campaign. This
:19:43. > :19:50.kind of street campaigning, harnessing people power, is what the
:19:51. > :19:54.Corbyn phenomenon is all about. We are getting enormous amount of
:19:55. > :19:58.support for Corbyn, a lot of them are Labour members, a lot of them
:19:59. > :20:06.are not, but the membership process has just begun. If Jeremy Corbyn
:20:07. > :20:11.does win the leadership election, some members of the local party are
:20:12. > :20:19.talking about these select and Peter Kyle. -- the selecting. He would
:20:20. > :20:25.effectively be sacked as the Labour candidate before the next general
:20:26. > :20:30.election. If you are an MP against nationalising the railways, against
:20:31. > :20:34.ending academy schools, if you are against taxing the rich, if you are
:20:35. > :20:38.politically against stopping the privatisation of the NHS and
:20:39. > :20:43.bringing it back into full public ownership, then why would you want
:20:44. > :20:46.to stand as a candidate for a party that supports those things? If he
:20:47. > :20:54.can convince the local members that he will stand for Labour and
:20:55. > :20:57.convince people that those ideas are ones he genuinely supports, then
:20:58. > :21:05.maybe. I very much doubt he can do that. Peter Kyle knows he faces a
:21:06. > :21:09.battle to hold his job. I hope he comes and stands against me so that
:21:10. > :21:12.I can ask him what he has done for the Labour Party in the last 20
:21:13. > :21:21.years, and I can say what I have done, and then we can put that to
:21:22. > :21:24.the vote. But I think the party has probably split more radically than
:21:25. > :21:29.it was in the 1980s. I think we are standing at the edge of a cliff, and
:21:30. > :21:34.it might well be that one or other of the factions, or both of us, and
:21:35. > :21:38.up going over it. I think it is that serious. Do you think this could be
:21:39. > :21:46.the end of the Labour Party? Of course, no party has a right to
:21:47. > :21:51.exist. And it is not just Brighton. Although Jeremy Corbyn denies he
:21:52. > :21:58.wants a purge of hostile MPs, one of his most powerful allies has a clear
:21:59. > :22:01.warning. I believe some of the MPs have behaved absolutely despicably
:22:02. > :22:07.and disgracefully, and they have not shown any respect whatsoever to the
:22:08. > :22:11.leader. They should be held to account. So those vocal dissidents
:22:12. > :22:15.who do not show the respect to the leader that you describe, when it
:22:16. > :22:23.comes to the selection, you say they are asking for it. Anybody who
:22:24. > :22:27.behaves in a way that is totally disrespectful, out with the culture
:22:28. > :22:32.of the Labour Party, basically they are asking to be held to account.
:22:33. > :22:38.The trouble with all of this is that it destabilises the party, it means
:22:39. > :22:42.that we are fighting each other, it loosens the collective bonds that we
:22:43. > :22:46.have when we work together and incorporate at local level and
:22:47. > :22:51.deliver real results for people. And it means that we are distracted from
:22:52. > :22:54.the real task, which is to unite, to move forward, to form not just an
:22:55. > :23:05.opposition but a government in waiting, and take that fight to the
:23:06. > :23:12.Tories. Last weekend, and the Trades Union
:23:13. > :23:17.Congress rolls into Brighton. While the unions plough through debate
:23:18. > :23:20.after debate about Brexit, workers per role writes, everyone is talking
:23:21. > :23:27.about the future of the party that the union set up to be there
:23:28. > :23:34.political voice, but they are united in agreeing that Labour is in a very
:23:35. > :23:40.bad place. Have you ever seen Labour in this kind of condition in your
:23:41. > :23:43.life? I remember difficult days through the 1980s, people come
:23:44. > :23:48.through in the end because the ultimate lesson is only united
:23:49. > :23:51.parties win. When you are divided, you lose, and I'm afraid that is the
:23:52. > :24:00.real lesson of politics that everybody has to learn at some
:24:01. > :24:05.point. Most believe leadership challenger Owen Smith is going to
:24:06. > :24:11.lose. He is here on the hunt for votes. Getting towards the end,
:24:12. > :24:15.right, so it has been tough, did you ever think it was going to be as
:24:16. > :24:18.tough as it has turned out to be? I thought it was going to be exactly
:24:19. > :24:23.this tough right from the beginning, we were under no illusions how this
:24:24. > :24:26.was going to be, it was going to be an argument within the family, and
:24:27. > :24:30.those are always difficult. You say you think you are going to win, you
:24:31. > :24:35.are the only person I have spoken to who thinks that. I know what we're
:24:36. > :24:39.doing in terms of the phone calls we have been making, the contacts we
:24:40. > :24:46.have been making, and it shows it is evenly balanced, and I will keep on
:24:47. > :24:49.going right to the. With the race almost over, Jeremy Corbyn looks
:24:50. > :24:54.like a winner, but can he win the election which matters the most? You
:24:55. > :24:59.must accept that, from where you stand now, you have got a mountain
:25:00. > :25:03.to climb to get anywhere near being a credible alternative government,
:25:04. > :25:08.you are not going to denied that, are you? Don't judge everything by
:25:09. > :25:12.opinion polls, think of a couple of factors. The last general election,
:25:13. > :25:16.less than half of the young people who had registered to vote actually
:25:17. > :25:20.took part in the election. In the poorest parts of the country, the
:25:21. > :25:23.turnout was the lowest. The involvement of young people in
:25:24. > :25:28.political activity is far greater than it was a year ago. So you are
:25:29. > :25:37.relying on people voting who have not voted in the past and who tend
:25:38. > :25:41.not to vote. Is that pie in the sky? No pies in any sky! Do you accept
:25:42. > :25:45.that your party has to unite again or face political oblivion? We have
:25:46. > :25:51.to unite as a party, and actually by and large we are united as a party.
:25:52. > :26:00.I say to the Parliamentary Labour Party, come together.
:26:01. > :26:07.Since the Brexit vote, British politics has never been quite so
:26:08. > :26:12.volatile. Or the country so divided. Many year and for a stronger
:26:13. > :26:20.opposition to the Government. And even Dean Court wood told me frankly
:26:21. > :26:24.that they need to improve. -- Team Corbyn. Do you need to deliver a
:26:25. > :26:28.better performance in opposing the Government? We have all got to raise
:26:29. > :26:33.the level of our game and learn lessons. I have had enough of
:26:34. > :26:37.politicians who think they are God's gift to politics, we have made
:26:38. > :26:41.mistakes like everybody else, we are willing to learn the lessons from
:26:42. > :26:46.our own PLP, particularly members who have been in this position. A
:26:47. > :26:52.bit of tutoring from old hands. Why not?
:26:53. > :26:56.Most expect Jeremy Corbyn will win, but if he does, even with tutoring,
:26:57. > :27:03.reuniting the party now looks as good as impossible. Some MPs who
:27:04. > :27:07.resigned from his Shadow Cabinet have told me privately they are
:27:08. > :27:13.contemplating returning to the team, but they won't pledge loyalty to his
:27:14. > :27:21.leadership. Hostility to Jeremy Corbyn runs deep. Not just in my
:27:22. > :27:28.lifetime, but stretching back to the 1930s, by any examination, this is
:27:29. > :27:33.the greatest crisis that the Labour Party has faced. You believe you may
:27:34. > :27:38.not see another Labour government in your lifetime, then? I am 74, and
:27:39. > :27:45.unless things change radically and rapidly, it is very doubtful that I
:27:46. > :27:54.will see another Labour government in my lifetime.
:27:55. > :28:02.For all the dire warnings, Labour MPs I have spoken to do not believe
:28:03. > :28:06.me -- Labour is about to split, but without reconnecting to the millions
:28:07. > :28:12.of voters who have turned their backs, Labour faces a dark future -
:28:13. > :28:16.slow decay, broken as a major force in British politics.