The new issue of The Spectator leads on the next big story in British politics: the not-so-cold war for the Labour leadership. The first sign of a brutal civil war is mass evacuation, and we’ve seen that with Milburn, John Reid, Purnell etc. James’s cover piece takes you through the other dynamics. The war the Brown-Whelan-Unite alliance is trying to rig the succession for Ed Balls, he says, and has started to think of which new MPs to select. So when Purnell goes up to Tom Watson and describes him as being a “cancer at the heart of the Labour Party” this is what he’s referring to: an attempt by Watson to rig the succession in his soon-to-be-vacated constituency in favour of a candidate who could be relied upon to vote Balls.
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