fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days agoNew face, same problems: replacing Keir Starmer with Wes Streeting will do nothing to help Labour | Zoe Williams
What would happen, in such a challenge? Would Streeting reap the benefit of the rule change of 2021, in which a candidate would need 20% of the parliamentary party to nominate, rather than 10%? All the rumours back then were that this change was specifically designed to favour Streeting, by keeping mavericks, outliers, lefties or, let's give them their umbrella description, any MP the membership didn't actively loathe off the ballot.
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