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Is the Labour Party a waste of time?
Is Labour under Starmer now going to Pasokify into oblivion, and was the Corbyn moment just a blip on this journey, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Labour leader Keir Starmer and Deputy Leader Angela Rayner on a walkabout as they visit Seaton Carew seafront while on the election campaign trail

IS the party over? Is the Labour Party just one big waste of time — an energy sponge that exhausts anyone who wants to change Britain?

Many thousands of people seem to feel that way and have resigned their membership. 

The turnaround from a growing party that felt like a social movement to Sir Keir Starmer’s bland, beige leadership is too disheartening. 

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