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Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to ParkLife Heavitree in Exeter to discuss the cost of living
LABOUR PARTY membership plummeted by 91,000 members last year because of “factional leadership,” grassroots campaigning group Momentum claimed today.
The party’s accounts at the end of 2021 show that membership stood at 432,213, down from 523,332 in 2020 — a drop of around 17.4 per cent.
The accounts also show that the size of Labour’s financial deficit went up from £1 million to £5.2 million.
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
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
