Labour’s shadow chancellor has said he wants David Cameron to resign as Prime Minister and “take his party with him”.
John McDonnell addressed a crowd of more than 150,000 people in Trafalgar Square on Saturday in a demonstration organised by the People’s Assembly.
After his speech he told the Press Association that he thinks the Prime Minister “should go” and that Labour will end up in power.
“I think Cameron should go, but I think he should take his party with him,” he said.
“His Government is now bankrupt in terms of political ideas, and bankrupt in terms of what they have done with the economy as well.
“On every front now we are seeing the Government in disarray – in terms of the economy we are slipping backwards instead of growing.”
He said the Tories have failed to invest in the economy at a time when it needs investment, resulting in people’s earnings falling too.
Saying that the tide is now turning against the Conservatives, Mr McDonnell said the opinion polls consistently show a surge in support for his party which is going from “strength to strength”.
He told the Press Association: “What is happening now is that the Labour Party is reinventing itself – there is a movement mobilising in every community and we have doubled our membership.
“People who may well have voted Conservative at the last election are now saying they have had enough – the Conservatives are in disarray and becoming deeply unpopular.”
He said Labour are building a solid foundation ahead of 2020, adding: “I’m not even sure the Conservatives will last until the next election.
“That’s in light of all the splits in the Tory Party and over the EU and also over individual policy areas and the mistakes they are making – alienating large sections of their own support.”
Mr McDonnell said demonstrations on the scale seen in Trafalgar Square on Saturday give people “enormous confidence” to make a change.
He said the mobilisation of so many demonstrators is a “stepping stone” towards a Labour Government, which he said will “almost certainly” happen.
