Analysis: Labour leader seeks to enforce authority in bid to move away from Corbyn era and show voters a united party

It is 2022, not 1978, and yet the dominant story about Labour in the last few days has revolved around picket lines and the party’s union links. As one slightly bemused internal observer put it: “It does seem like an odd battle to pick.”

So why have Keir Starmer and his team decided to bar shadow ministers from formally supporting strikers on picket lines, even if action taken against them if they do is, at best, haphazard? As ever with such tussles, it depends where you start.

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