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Labour MP Sir Keir Starmer speaks to local members and activists at the launch of his campaign to replace Jeremy Corbyn
LABOUR leadership contender Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of refusing to answer a question from the public about his employment of a private healthcare lobbyist.
The question about whether he would still be able to defend the NHS was put forward by a young woman from the floor during an election meeting in Manchester on Saturday.
It referred to the hiring of Ben Nunn, who has worked as a lobbyist for the private healthcare sector.
The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
Gisele Pelicot said ‘shame must change sides.’ We may think we agree, but, argues LOUISE RAW, society still has some way to go
Our political sphere, stripped of its popular component by decades of neoliberalism, sits apart from the public, writes COLL MCCAIL citing a telling parallel with the writings of French revolutionary Abbe Sieyes
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership