Starmer is wary of offering any concrete agenda. But with leftwing ideas still popular, there are good reasons to be bold
Even Britain’s worst crisis since the war cannot stamp out the flames of Labour’s seemingly eternal conflict. As constituency Labour parties defy diktats from the party’s general secretary that motions expressing solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn – a year ago, standing to be Labour prime minister, now not even a Labour MP – will be ruled out of order, the former leader’s team is beginning legal action to reverse the suspension of the whip, and to prove a deal was done to bring him back to the party. But while it is tempting to portray this as a clash between two internally unified groups – the Starmerites and the Corbynites – there are more complicated divisions at work.
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