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LABOUR leadership longshot Liz Kendall made a pitch to the left of the party today exclusively in the Morning Star, presenting herself as the heir to Clement Attlee rather than Tony Blair.
Ms Kendall condemned the Tories’ “ideological crusade” against public services and “undemocratic assault” on trade unions.
But in an implicit criticism of left-wing rival Jeremy Corbyn, she declared that “principle and protest without electoral success” is “futile.”
JOHN REES replies to Claudia Webbe
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
