All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
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EVERYONE has now noticed that left-wing campaigners are being more or less entirely excluded from nomination for Labour parliamentary candidates in winnable seats.
Local Labour members are not rejecting left candidates — Keir Starmer’s apparatus at party headquarters, seizing on any justification, however absurd, is ruling them out of consideration.
Emma Dent Coad, who actually won Kensington for Labour in 2017 for the first time ever, is only the best-known of those victimised. It is estimated that of 40 decent Labour prospects at the next general election where a candidate has been chosen, only one is from the left. Black men in particular are being blocked.
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