article_snippet: John McDonnell, chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs, said ‘a bloc of 30-40 left MPs’ in Labour will ensure Ed Miliband will not be able to ‘ignore’ a bloc of 30-40 left MPs’ in Labour demands.
article_snippet: Mr McDonnell has held talks with Ed Miliband and said Mr McDonnell has already ‘moved the Labour Party on to our agenda’.
article_snippet: In a recent meeting, Mr McDonnell told Ed Miliband that any government Ed Miliband leads could be ‘the most radical’ and ‘perhaps more radical’ since Clement Attlee.
article_snippet: Mr McDonnell claimed Ed Miliband had agreed.
article_snippet: Mr McDonnell said that if Labour falls short of a majority Labour would have to abandon Labour pledge to impose spending cuts because of the pressure from left in the Labour Party.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband told the New Statesman:
article_snippet: Mr McDonnell Mr McDonnell said there has already been ‘a shift in terms of the Labour leadership
article_snippet: Mr McDonnell added: ‘You’ve got to offer an alternative.
article_snippet: Mr McDonnell said ‘a bloc of 30-40 left MPs’ in Labour will ensure Ed Miliband will not be able to ‘ignore’ the hard-left in the Labour Party after the General Election .
article_snippet: Mr McDonnell Mr McDonnell said that a ‘large number’ of Labour’s candidates for the General Election were on the left and could help vote against the renewal of Trident.
article_snippet: Mr McDonnell added that Mr McDonnell is ‘more optimistic now about the role of the left in the Labour Party than at any time in the last 20 years’.
article_snippet: Mr McDonnell, 63, who has been the MP for Hayes and Harlington since 1997, is chair of the Socialist Campaign Group and Public Services Not Private Profit Group.
article_snippet: Mr McDonnell, who left school at 17, served as a National Union of Miners and TUC official, before being elected to the Greater London Council in 1981, where he served as Ken Livingstone’s deputy.
highlights_snippet: John McDonnell said there's 'a bloc of 30-40 left MPs' against cuts .
  