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JOHN McDONNELL and Diane Abbott were among the shadow ministers at Saturday’s Labour Assembly Against Austerity conference to debate the way forward in the fightback against the Tory government.
That ought to have made them prime candidates for interview on yesterday’s foremost TV political debate programmes, The Sunday Politics Show on BBC and its ITV rival Peston on Sunday.
But there was no room for Labour frontbenchers. The BBC plumped for sacked former shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn while ITV picked ex-shadow business secretary Angela Eagle.
A ‘new phase’ for Starmerism is fairly similar to the old phase – only worse. ANDREW MURRAY takes a look
The suspended Labour MP’s historic resignation to found a working-class party has lit up social media with excitement as thousands knock at the door wanting involvement in the desperately needed project, writes ANDREW BURGIN
