SCOTLAND’S only Labour MP has revealed he hasn’t talked to Jeremy Corbyn since walking out the shadow cabinet four months ago.
Former shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray said the UK leader would have to agree to a “whole list of conditions” before he would contemplate re-joining his front bench.
The Edinburgh South MP, a close ally of Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale, also said it remained “incredibly difficult” for Mr Corbyn to win a general election.
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Mr Murray quit the shadow cabinet in the post-Brexit vote coup against Mr Corbyn, accusing him of only “talking to itself”, adding he should “look at himself seriously in the mirror”.
The shadow Scottish secretary is now Dave Anderson, an MP in the north east of England.
Asked on BBC Sunday Politics Scotland if was willing to rejoin the shadow cabinet, as other critics of Mr Corbyn had, Mr Murray said he would “continue to fight Scotland’s corner from the backbenches... out of the shackles of the shadow cabinet”.
He said Mr Corbyn had not asked him to rejoin, as they had not had a conversation since June 23, and he would only do so if he reinstated re-elections to the shadow cabinet.
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Asked if Mr Corbyn can win a general election, he said: “It’s going to be incredibly difficult unless he can put a policy platform together that can get a pathway to power for the Labour party. If you look at the polls it’s going to be incredibly difficult for him.”
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