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LABOUR deputy leader Tom Watson has launched a new “social democrat” faction within the party in his latest move to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn.
Around 90 Labour MPs and peers rallied around Mr Watson last night for the group’s first meeting in Westminster.
The mutinous politicians included Blairite and Brownite relics like Lord Mandelson and Baron Blunkett.
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
DAVID NICHOLSON is thrilled – and shocked – by an opera that seethes and sizzles with passion and the depraved use of power
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
