Your Party has just released its leadership election results. It’s good news for Jezza…
Corbyn’s faction, called The Many, has won 14 seats on the Central Executive Committee against Zarah Sultana’s seven. Her slate is called Grassroots Left…
Three independents were also elected. There were 25,347 voters across all elections out of potential 40,985 verified members making up a turnout of 61.7%. Corbyn is therefore set to become the parliamentary leader of the shambolic party – good luck…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”