Former Prime Minster Gordon Brown has waded into the Labour leadership contest, offering a thinly veiled warning about choosing a far-left candidate many critics see as lacking the broad appeal needed to win an election.
Brown did not mention Jeremy Corbyn by name, but his 50-minute speech Sunday targeted the candidate leading in the polls despite holding positions that many critics suggest would make him unelectable — such as a wish to renationalize some industries and to leave NATO.
Pacing before his audience, Brown warned of becoming a "party of protest." He said Labour needed to be credible, radical and "electable."
While he acknowledged that many were grieving from a thumping in the last election, Brown noted that "There is one thing worse than having broken hearts, it is powerlessness."
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