“Activist who co-wrote the Labour manifesto issues jibe to leadership contender.
Lachlan Stuart called Rebecca Long Bailey a ‘virtue-signalling coward’.
She endorsed plan for those with ‘transphobic views’ to be thrown out of party.
Mr Stuart said Ms Long Bailey was ‘not fit to lead’ because of her views on trans.
Labour’s civil war over transgender rights descended into even deeper bitterness last night after one of Jeremy Corbyn’s senior aides called leadership hopeful Rebecca Long Bailey a ‘virtue-signalling coward’ for threatening to expel feminists from the party – and a crowdfunded legal challenge was mounted against the party.
Ms Long Bailey, the favoured candidate of the Corbynite Left, is one of several senior Labour figures who last week endorsed a controversial ‘trans equality’ manifesto calling for anyone with ‘transphobic’ views to be thrown out of the party.
But Lachlan Stuart, a personal friend of Corbyn who co-wrote the Labour manifesto, said Ms Long Bailey was ‘not fit to lead’ because of her views on trans.”
