{"id":54861,"date":"2019-12-16T09:08:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T01:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54861"},"modified":"2019-12-16T09:08:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T01:08:21","slug":"uk-opposition-chief-corbyn-say-sorry-for-election-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54861","title":{"rendered":"UK: Opposition chief Corbyn say \u2018sorry\u2019 for election defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/uk.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/uk.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON, Dec 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Britain\u2019s main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn apologised to supporters for overseeing his Labour party\u2019s worst election defeat since before World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the veteran socialist defended his far-left campaign platform and gave no clear indication of when he might step down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will make no bones about it. The election result on Thursday was a body blow for everyone who so desperately needs real change in our country,\u201d Corbyn wrote in the Sunday Mirror newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wanted to unite the country that I love but I\u2019m sorry that we came up short and I take my responsibility for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday\u2019s snap general election handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s Conservatives a mandate to take Britain out of the European Union at the end of next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corbyn said on Friday that he would step down at some point early next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the century-old party has no clear successor and is being riven by infighting within its senior ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Labour\u2019s campaign was dogged by voter doubts about its vague position on Brexit and allegations of anti-Semitism within the party\u2019s senior ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corbyn tried to shift the campaign\u2019s focus on bread-and-butter social issues traditionally important to Labour voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut despite our best efforts, this election was ultimately about Brexit,\u201d Corbyn admitted in his letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Tory campaign, amplified by most of the media, managed to persuade many that only Boris Johnson could \u2018get Brexit done\u2019,\u201d he said in reference to Johnson\u2019s campaign slogan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will learn the lessons of this defeat, above all by listening to those lifelong Labour voters who we\u2019ve lost in working class communities.\u201d  &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Dec 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Britain\u2019s main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn apologised to supporters for overseeing his Labour party\u2019s worst election defeat since before World War II. But the veteran socialist defended his far-left campaign platform and gave no clear indication of when he might step down. \u201cI will make no bones about it. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}