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The NEC left were right to walk out on Starmer
Resisting the Labour right is not a distraction from fighting the Tories, but essential to doing so effectively
National Executive Committee (NEC) members “walked out” of a meeting online to protest the election of Dame Margaret Beckett as chairwoman
RISHI SUNAK’S plan to punish the very workers who have held society together throughout the pandemic must be resisted by a united labour movement prepared to exert political and industrial pressure.
A pity then that Labour’s leadership is engaged in a savage battle against its own members.
Sir Keir Starmer’s manoeuvres on the national executive committee (NEC) to deny the chair to Ian Murray of the Fire Brigades Union — because Murray was among those who protested over his removal of the whip from Jeremy Corbyn — provoked a walkout by the entire left group.
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