Starmer purges the Corbynites
One of the first thing Keir Starmer and his team decided to focus on after winning the Labour leadership was candidate selection. The Labour leader’s senior aide Morgan McSweeney takes the view that a Labour rosette needs to mean something – and in recent years that has appeared to be in doubt. In the 2017 and 2019 snap elections a series of Labour candidates were picked with little vetting, or with factional reasons winning the day. This included Jared O’Mara who was selected for Sheffield Hallam for Labour when Jeremy Corbyn was leader and elected in 2017. In 2023, he was jailed over a £52,000 fraud. So, Starmer’s team have
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