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Senior Labour MPs demanded yesterday that Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood take action to stop top Tories “electioneering at taxpayer’s expense.”
Shadow cabinet office minister Jon Trickett said the Civil Service chief must put an “immediate halt” to party political campaigning by ministers on government business.
He told the Star: “We’re getting close now to a position where this is a breach of fundamental constitutional principles.”
STEPHEN ARNELL examines whether Starmer is a canny strategist playing a longer game or heading for MacDonald’s Great Betrayal, tracing parallels between today’s rightward drift and the 1931 crisis
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
