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Donald Brind says a challenge to Corbyn’s leadership is now a “virtual certainty”

Donald Brind says a challenge to Corbyn’s leadership is now a “virtual certainty”

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Reflecting on a dispiriting week for the red team Corbyn’s tent suddenly looks a lot smaller after the loss of policy chief Neale Coleman.  a big loss.  “If you want them to eat chicken, don’t lay out a buffet”. That’s a favourite piece of advice from a Lefty friend who I work with offering training in media skills to progressive folk in the Labour movement and charities. The point of the advice is — focus on your key message and don’t get…

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PB’s “Labour insider”, Henry G Manson, marks your card for the next leadership contest

PB’s “Labour insider”, Henry G Manson, marks your card for the next leadership contest

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Jarvis & Nandy are now the value choices for next leader Last Saturday at the annual Fabian Conference the headline speaker was Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. However one of the more interesting debates at the event was Dan Jarvis, Lisa Nandy and Keir Starmer speaking alongside each other. There’s a high chance that one of those three will be the next leader of the Labour Party and the Fabians knew it. I first picked out Lisa Nandy in September 2010 in…

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Jeremy Corbyn cannot afford to lose trade union support over Trident – it could be his undoing

Jeremy Corbyn cannot afford to lose trade union support over Trident – it could be his undoing

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Embed from Getty Images Get the debate over Trident renewal wrong and it might be trade union leaders – rather than the PLP – that Jeremy Corbyn has to worry about most writes Keiran Pedley Despite a difficult few days, Jeremy Corbyn seems to have emerged from last week’s reshuffle stronger than ever. He may not have got the Shadow Cabinet that he really wanted but piece by piece the Labour leader is shaping the party’s top team in his…

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Why Sadiq Khan shouldn’t resign as an MP were he to become London Mayor

Why Sadiq Khan shouldn’t resign as an MP were he to become London Mayor

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In May, Khan might be the only electoral success for Labour and like Boris that could propel him towards the leadership of his party. I’ll be frank, I think Jeremy Corbyn is a disaster for Labour, with his and his team’s approach to politics there will be no electoral low that Labour won’t plunge under his leadership as evidenced by his poor personal polling. With the reshuffle this week I get the feeling the Parliamentary Labour Party have reached a…

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Not in my name: Alastair Meeks looks at Corbyn’s leadership style

Not in my name: Alastair Meeks looks at Corbyn’s leadership style

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No compromise on issue regarded by him as matters of principle In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the burning topic of the day – literally, on occasion –  was religion.  In England, the cutting edge of religious thought was found among what we now call the Puritans.  This label was originally in fact a catch-all term of abuse for a variety of different hardline Protestant groups and not one that those so labelled would have welcomed.  One of the seminal…

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The real cost of Corbyn’s reshuffle — Labour is talking about itself not what voters care about.

The real cost of Corbyn’s reshuffle — Labour is talking about itself not what voters care about.

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Donald Brind – from a Labour perspective I woke up this morning to hear a devastating critique of the Chancellor George Osborne’s record on the Today programme. Under him “we haven’t rebalanced the economy towards manufacturing, exports and the regions .. fixing the roof when the sun shines never happened.” A perfect script for the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell you might think but this was, in fact, John Longworth, head of the British Chambers of Commerce speaking. He had just…

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Whoever started the briefing about a “revenge reshuffle” has done Corbyn no favours

Whoever started the briefing about a “revenge reshuffle” has done Corbyn no favours

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So after all of that Hilary Benn retains his Shadow Foreign Secretary jobhttps://t.co/qnFEtf3Bvd pic.twitter.com/kLTdSNNRQG — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 6, 2016 The changes don’t live up to the billing In the end the news that Hilary Benn would remain in post came at 1.07 am and the overall package appears little different from what it was before. Benn is still there while Emily Thornberry replaces Maria Eagle as shadow defence secretary. She in turn switches to the culture job. Full…

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Now Labour’s divisions are being talked about as being “a Political Civil War”

Now Labour’s divisions are being talked about as being “a Political Civil War”

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Statement from Labour First From Labour First – what a political civil war looks like: pic.twitter.com/ysX1QHnOOu — Glen O'Hara (@gsoh31) January 5, 2016 The fallout over the “Revenge Reshuffle” goes on What a day. First there was the news that Cameron is to allow ministers freedom to campaign for LEAVE in EURef campaign… and Corbyn’s reshuffle is sending our reverberations that look set to make any form of reconciliation in the party nigh on impossible. From the information that’s coming…

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