The Tories are still holed below the waterline. (View Post)

I think SKS genuinely believes his focus on process and blaming Whitehall is right and will save him. In his own mind, if he can show the machinery failed, and that he was not personally told the ful… (View Post)

This is the core of it for me. Mandelson was a political appointment. Starmer wanted him there for political reasons and made the call. Now that it has blown up, he is trying to retreat into process … (View Post)

Is anyone (Brixian aside) convinced by the statement and answers this afternoon? It is clear he is not going to resign, and Labour's rules make it (too) hard to remove him. So he limps on until … (View Post)

Oh, John McDonnell not holding back (View Post)