Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer takes part in a question and answer session with New Statesman deputy political editor Rachel Wearmouth, at London County Hall. Picture date: Tuesday June 27, 2023.
THE head of the centre-left pressure group Compass today hit out at the Labour Party’s “petty tyranny” as he claimed he faced expulsion as a member after 44 years.
Neal Lawson said he was being driven out by “bullies” over an “uncontentious” tweet he sent in 2021 in support of a Liberal Democrat MP’s call for some voters to back Green candidates in the local elections.
In a piece for the Guardian, he said: “The reason is that the party machine is no longer run in this long and rich spirit of pluralism.”
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
