Neil Kinnock: Success for Labour is more seats – and the possibility of governing

What counts as a good result for Labour? Its former leader rejects the idea a higher vote share is a good outcome.

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has warned that there is “no honest measure of success” for Labour other than gaining seats “with a possibility of a minority government”.

Kinnock, who led the party between 1983 and 1992, said any judgement of success or failure had “been intensified” by a disastrous Conservative campaign: “If their star is Ms [Amber] Rudd, we know it’s a dud.”