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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

New 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.
UK politics
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The Guardian view on Labour's new deputy leader: Lucy Powell can help a floundering government reconnect | Editorial

Labour should shift from top-down technocratic control to embrace traditional instincts on inequality and poverty, using Powell’s deputyship to reset party relations.
US politics
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Latest New Democratic Think Tank Is a Dead End

Searchlight Institute reflects careerist, centrist Democratic push to shift the party rightward, diminishing liberal influence and echoing past DLC/PPI strategies.
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