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PM could be ejected from Downing Street if Welsh Labour loses Senedd elections in May, First Minister says
TWO decades after she became acting Labour leader in the wake of John Smith’s death, Margaret Beckett has once again stepped up to pick up the pieces of a broken party.
Labour trounced the Tories in the European elections when Ms Beckett led the party for three months in 1994 under unexpected and unwanted circumstances. And now the veteran MP has been asked to lead Labour’s investigation into its worst election defeat since 1992.
Labour announced yesterday that Ms Beckett has been appointed as chair of its “learning the lessons from defeat” task force.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
