Labour keen to let process ‘play out’, sources say
Labour leader Ivana Bacik and Louth TD Ged Nash outside Leinster House on Friday. Ms Bacik said it is 'unlikely' that Labour will go into government with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
“There’s a very strong view across all sections of the Labour Party that it’s hard to see how we would go into government given the lack of leverage, given the lack of capacity and influence we would have,” she said. Ms Bacik said that a recent story in the Irish Independent – citing an internal party report of a meeting in which she is reported to have said that she would engage in talks about government but had no intention of actually doing a deal – “did not accurately reflect what I said at the meeting”.
“I think we do need to reflect on the disaffection that sometimes people can feel from the political system and sometimes that communities can feel, in particular, from the political system,” he said.
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