Watch: Richard Burgon’s car-crash Channel 4 interview
As Labour’s new shadow City Minister, Richard Burgon will be hoping to prove that his party isn’t as anti-business as they were seen to be in the last election. Alas, his interview with Cathy Newman on Channel 4 news last night will have done little to help his cause. Burgon — who was one of the MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election — struggled during the interview in which he tried to defend John McDonnell over his fiscal charter U-turn: ‘If people don’t change their view when further evidence comes before them then they’ve got some tough questions to answer. Labour is an anti-austerity party. This is