Re the next Labour leader, is there not also a rather unsaid element that doesn’t help Burnham - i.e he’s a straight white man? I don’t endorse this obsession with identity above all, but there’s ple… (View Post)

It will be wonderfully ironic if Starmer, the king of wanting everything done to the letter, has to go for failure to follow process. (View Post)

If the FCO were aware of them too, where does that leave Cooper? (View Post)

It is starting to feel, bizarrely, like the Labour Party is starting to move itself into a post-Starmer place. I say bizarrely not because I think Starmer is doing a good job (he isn’t) but that the … (View Post)

If they’re starting to turn on each other, that is showing that they are desperately concerned about this. I know we got used to the whiff of scandal under Johnson, but this was supposed to be the so… (View Post)