Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
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The Forde report: what has changed?
Keir Starmer has claimed that the debilitating factionalism revealed in the 138-page inquiry is over — if so, that is only because the worst offenders are now in full control of Labour. We must break the cycle, writes ANDREW MURRAY
DEEPLY INSIGHTFUL: Martin Forde QC (inset)
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
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ONE cannot read the Forde Report into the internal life of the Labour Party during the Jeremy Corbyn years without a deepening sense of rage.
That is not because Martin Forde QC has done a bad job — far from it. His report is judicious, largely fair, and in many respects, deeply insightful.
He and his team were charged with reviewing the contents of the “leaked report” — an internal Labour document prepared under then general secretary Jennie Formby and originally intended as part of the party’s submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission investigation into Labour’s handling of complaints of anti-semitism.
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Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
