Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Stevenage, Hertfordshire
SIR KEIR STARMER rejected a request by socialist Labour MPs yesterday to reinstate Rebecca Long Bailey as shadow education secretary.
During a video conference call with members of the Socialist Campaign Group, which includes former party leader Jeremy Corbyn, MPs asked Mr Starmer to reconsider his decision to sack her.
Mr Starmer fired the Salford and Eccles MP from his front bench on Thursday for sharing an article that mentioned Israeli training of US police.
Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
