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JEREMY CORBYN’S characteristically generous letter to Tom Watson marks the end of a turbulent relationship between the deputy leader and the Labour Party’s twice massively acclaimed popular leader, as well as a huge majority of the party.
It is fair to say that Watson steadily worked himself into an impossible position in the party: in September 2016 he proposed a draconian rule change for the election of the leader (to place selection entirely with the Parliamentary Labour Party) which would have ensured Corbyn’s deselection.
In an open letter to Watson in July this year general secretary Jennie Formbywrote: “You are complicit in creating a perception that anti-semitism is more prevalent in the Labour Party than wider society. This is deeply irresponsible for the deputy leader of a party which seeks to be in government.”
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
Washington and its Western allies decry human rights abuses while arming and shielding Israel, turning contradiction into policy, argues RAMZY BAROUD