Angela Rayner will be the headline guest speaker at Mainstream’s spring reception next month, with MPs, hacks and “friends from civil society and across the labour movement” invited to a central Westminster location (TBC) to discuss “[building] principled, practical and popular Labour politics for the country”. Mainstream was founded last September by Compass group and Open Labour, with the support of Andy Burnham just as he prepared to dump on Starmer at party conference. Its mission is to prevent Labour’s “clear drift to the right” under Starmer…
Rayner is rallying the troops against Starmer in broad daylight. If he’s even still in situ by the time she speaks…
Speaking at his press conference on the Pride in Place programme which was obviously all about Mandelson, Starmer said:
“Tomorrow’s front pages are unlikely to be about the Pride in Place programme.”