SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests

IT WOULD almost seem that in a final push to rid the Labour Party of any vestige of political decency, never mind socialist aspiration, Keir Starmer is doing his very best to chase the left from Labour Party membership.
How else do we interpret the welcome that Natalie Elphicke, Dover MP and Tory rat, received from the Labour leadership as she swam for dear life, or whatever else she may have been offered, from Rishi Sunak’s sinking ship.
As John McDonnell said on LBC: “It certainly is a stunt that … has implications for the Labour Party … because of the views that Natalie Elphicke has expressed in the past … some of which I don’t think the party should be associated with.”

VINCE MILLS says Scottish Labour has adopted better positions than its Westminster counterpart — but unless it starts to fight for them that will count for nothing

VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’

VINCE MILLS says politicians of various parties are interpreting the result in self-serving ways, but it contains little comfort for the left

VINCE MILLS gathers some sobering facts that would inevitably be major obstacles to any such initiative