Britain risks shift to far right if Labour fails to enact ‘radical change’, says John McDonnell

Former shadow chancellor says public disillusionment could set in and calls for ‘real strategy’ on wages and incomes

British politics risks an unprecedented shift to the far right as a result of public disillusionment if a Labour government fails to enact radical change, the former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has warned.

Writing in the Guardian, McDonnell said the threat would come not just from Nigel Farage’s resurgent Reform UK but from the return of a Conservative party “shorn” of its moderate wing and dominated by populists.