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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer
DISSENT against the Labour leadership’s “McCarthyism” is growing, campaigners said today after allegations of yet another witch-hunt targeting a leftwinger provoked a furious response.
In a damning intervention, the party’s MP for Dagenham and Rainham Jon Cruddas branded threats to expel Neal Lawson, a former speech writer for Gordon Brown, as a “disgraceful move by a right-wing, illiberal faction.”
According to the Observer newspaper, Mr Lawson, a party member for 44 years and head of centre-left pressure group Compass, received an email from the party last week claiming that he expressed support for Green Party candidates in the 2021 local elections.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII