As if it wasn’t enough for Starmer to endure the Cabinet and No10 team ripping itself apart, the far left is now getting involved. Yesterday’s revelations about a former senior No10 aide didn’t come from the lobby – they are instead contained in the forthcoming book ‘The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy’ by Paul Holden. Material the Tories could only dream of…
The book is endorsed by most of the prominent figures on the British anti-Labour left including Owen Jones and Zarah Sultana. These figures have now all left Labour post-Corbyn and are attacking the party from the outside…
The blurb relates: “McSweeney’s clique often employed dirty tricks to undermine the left-wing Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, fuelling a moral panic over antisemitism and establishing front groups that hobbled prominent independent media outlets in the name of fighting ‘misinformation. McSweeney then guided Starmer to the Labour leadership on a platform that Starmer, once in office, almost instantly betrayed.”
It continues: “Having conquered the party on false pretences, McSweeney and his allies set about purging opponents, marginalising the membership, and dragging party policy to the right… This is a sordid tale that includes hacked emails, anonymous smears, dodgy dossiers, cynical stitch-ups, and staggering hypocrisy. It traces the Labour Party’s transformation into a censorial, authoritarian machine, and sounds the alarm about the possible corruption of British politics by dark money.”
The book runs to 542 pages and is due to ship shortly. Panic stations…
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.”