This week's row over the future of Diane Abbott must be understood in the context of the decades-long battle for supremacy between different wings of the Labour Party...The party's two worst defeats in modern times were under Michael Foot and Jeremy Corbyn, both from the left-wing tradition.
Sir Keir Starmer has sought to prise the Left's power from the party machine and gain control piece by piece, resulting in a massive own goal. The latest piece of that process led to a significant setback.
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