A Charlatan Takes Centre Stage

Here's what the Morning Star newspaper had to say about Owen Smith's Labour leadership challenge:-

Mr Smith claims to be a “credible and radical” alternative to Mr Corbyn, and has said he would rewrite clause four of Labour’s constitution — stripped of socialist content by Tony Blair — to “put tackling inequality right at the heart of everything we do.”

But the Pontypridd MP has faced yet more questions about his past as an £80,000-a-year lobbyist for trans­national drugs giant Pfizer.

Mr Smith insisted yesterday that he has “never advocated privatisation of the NHS” — a claim at odds with what he told the South Wales Echo in 2006, in which he said privateers could bring “good ideas” and “valuable services” to the NHS.