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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.
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
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity