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Labour heralds the changing of the guard

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It’s been a busy few months for Keir Starmer. Following the Hartlepool by-election disaster, the Labour leader opted to reshuffle his team and bring in a string of new signing. Out went old faces like Ben Nunn and in came, err, even older faces from the Blair years such as Sam White, Deborah Mattinson and Matthew Doyle.

Not content with shaking up his own team, the former Director of Public Prosecutions has opted to put opponents in the dock, with the National Executive Commitee voting last Tuesday to expel four left-wing groups ‘not compatible’ with the party’s values. The proscription of the groups — Resist, Socialist Appeal, Labour in Exile Network and Labour Against the Witchhunt — has been met with howls of protest from the Momentum machine, whose members must now be fearing for their future too.

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