‘Our survival is at stake’: Lisa Nandy issues warning as Labour leadership race intensifies

Outsider in race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn says party must listen to voters who deserted Labour at election

Lisa Nandy speaks at the town hall in Worksop (Getty)

“Labour’s survival is at stake if we choose the wrong path. This is really existential for us now.”

Lisa Nandy is in no doubt about the seriousness of the crisis facing her party when I meet her on the campaign trail for the Labour leadership, and she is equally ready to set out in stark terms the choice facing those voting for a successor to Jeremy Corbyn.

We meet in the former mining town of Worksop in north Nottinghamshire, a location typical of the areas that she believes are behind Labour’s electoral decline and which must be won back for the party to have a chance of power.