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WELL, panto season seems to have started seriously early in the Parliamentary Labour Party this year, with Angela Eagle as Cinderella fleeing the ball at the stroke of midnight and former big pharma lobbyist Owen Smith seemingly seeking to identify as a hybrid of Aladdin and Che Guevara.
Meanwhile the Blairites are trying to cast Corbyn in the role of wicked uncle — it must be the beard.
The latest in a seemingly never-ending series of farcical allegations hurled at the party leader are the bizarre claims of bullying made by that wellknown Labour figure… Conor McGinn. McGinn, and I had to look this up, is a Labour whip — that is, one of those whose job it is to bully, harangue and intimidate MPs into toeing the party line.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
PAUL DONOVAN recommends a thorough explanation of why Starmer’s Labour travels light on policy, and bending to knee to neoliberalism
Gisele Pelicot said ‘shame must change sides.’ We may think we agree, but, argues LOUISE RAW, society still has some way to go