In opinion piece for the Guardian, former shadow chancellor says party members, unions and MPs should ‘take back control’John McDonnell: Starmer and co are trashing Labour’s legacy. We must take back control of our party – before it’s too lateThe suspended Labour veteran John McDonnell has called for a grassroots leadership challenge to the Labour government, warning that unless party members, unions and MPs “stand up and assert themselves to take back control of our party”, Labour risks losing not just its power: “We could lose a party.”The former shadow chancellor accused Keir Starmer’s government of “callousness and political incompetence”, criticising its hesitance in abolishing the two-child limit on benefits, and what he calls a “brutal launch of an attack on benefits of disabled people”.The subheading of this article was amended on 28 May 2025. An earlier version called McDonnell a former chancellor; he is in fact a former shadow chancellor. Continue reading...