The public will feel ‘stitched up’ if central government doesn’t deliver jobs, housing and prospects in the aftermath of Brexit, according to Labour local government spokesman Jim McMahon.
The former leader of Oldham MBC said mainstream politicians must take heed of the public’s demand to take back control from Europe, but he warned it demanded a ‘fundamental rethink’ of democracy, not just a case of handing down power from Brussels to Whitehall.
Speaking in the latest Public Intelligence/The MJ podcast, Mr McMahon said: ‘If mainstream politicians don’t wake up and recognise that people have had enough of being told what to do and not being able to affect real change over their own lives, we are going to get a backlash.