Anthony Albanese on the progressive backlash: 'People are looking for easy answers'

The Labor leader defends the party's recent pattern of capitulation, promising a policy reboot that won't happen overnight

Anthony Albanese does not hold back when sharing his situation report. "We've just got the lowest vote for the Australian Labor party in over 100 years," the Labor leader tells Guardian Australia's politics podcast.

We are talking about a progressive backlash evident on social media - a negative response to Labor's tendency post-election to vote for the Morrison government's policy after critiquing it.