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ANDY BURNHAM was accused of taking activists’ votes “for granted” yesterday after branding bosses “heroes” and bashing benefits claimants in a speech to business bigwigs.
He chose the plush City of London headquarters of consultancy conglomerate Ernst and Young to host his first speech of the Labour leadership campaign, designed to quash his reputation as the left-wing candidate.
The shadow health secretary told assembled bosses that Labour “got it wrong on business” under ex-leader Ed Miliband.
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
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT