{"id":36211,"date":"2019-12-12T22:43:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=36211"},"modified":"2019-12-12T22:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:43:56","slug":"will-corbyn-go-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/will-corbyn-go-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Corbyn go tomorrow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The shadow chancellor John McDonnell tells the BBC a decision will be made soon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked if both he and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will stand down if the BBC exit poll proves to be correct, Mr McDonnell &#8211; Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington in West London (Boris Johnson&#8217;s neighbouring constituency) &#8211; told the BBC&#8217;s Andrew Neil:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s see the results first, and an appropriate decision will be made in the morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives look set to gain around 50 additional seats, giving them a comfortable majority of 86 with Labour set to lose around 71 &#8211; if the exit poll is right.<\/p>\n<p>Such a result for the Conservative party would be their best performance in a general election since they were re-elected for a third consecutive term in 1987 under Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow chancellor McDonnell, 68, also told the BBC: &#8220;Clearly this was a Brexit election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Neil asked the opposition frontbencher whether Labour was now likely to realign itself back to the &#8220;centre-left&#8221;, moving away from the &#8220;hard-left&#8221; position many perceive them to have adopted since Mr Corbyn became leader in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Mr McDonnell said: &#8220;I think we are centre-left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pound Sterling soared in value against the dollar by 2% as the exit poll results were announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Scott Mathew | Subbing: Michelle Del Rey | Featured image credit: Dreamstime<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shadow chancellor John McDonnell tells the BBC a decision will be made soon When asked if both he and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will stand down if the BBC exit poll proves to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":36228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}