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Jim Murphy ditched his Westminster shadow cabinet post yesterday as he scrambled to secure the Scottish Labour leadership in spite of union opposition.
The Blairite stood down as shadow international development minister, saying: “I want to dedicate myself full-time to changing Scotland and changing the Scottish Labour Party.”
Mr Murphy cast off his Westminster duties a day after Unison became the latest union to throw its weight behind left-wing candidate Neil Findlay.
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
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott
Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity