Yesterday morning saw the fallout of Starmer’s purge of the some of the left of his party with the elimination of a few key targets. Last night was the second half of the operation. Labour National Executive Committee members parachuted themselves into safe seats in droves, some of which were very recently cleared indeed. This is real politics…
Singh Josan and Wheeler were on the three-person NEC panel which dumped Faiza Shaheen. This time it’s not that NEC are imposing Labour candidates, the NEC are the Labour candidates…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”