MOMENTUM founder Jon Lansman has announced he will step down as the group’s chairman next month.
The left-wing grassroots group was set up in 2015 to support the successful leadership bid of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Mr Lansman said that the group “must not give up” on democratising the Labour Party under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer.
A Cabinet clear-out and an apparent rejection of neoliberal orthodoxy have created fresh political momentum, but can entrenched institutional power be overcome by the new PM, wonders ANDREW MURRAY
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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


