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AT LOGGERHEADS: Keir Starmer and Diane Abbott
KEIR STARMER is one of the most right-wing Labour MPs, a new survey has established.
In a scarcely shocking finding which corresponds to all observable evidence, a study by a University of London professor puts the premier firmly among the least left-wing members of his parliamentary party.
Professor Chris Hanretty surveyed more than 1,000 local councillors, asking them to place their own MP in relation to their political positions on a left to right scale from 0 on the left to 100 on the right.
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
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott
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