Keir Starmer has sought Labour unity, but he will soon have to challenge the Corbyn legacy Polly Toynbee
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The memory of his predecessor as party leader will take years to erase. Expect a Clause IV moment
Losing, losing, losing. Is that what Labour does best? A brutal 154-page analysis by a panel of Labour heavyweights has just laid out the rugged path ahead if it’s to win next time after four election defeats. To take 124 more seats – after crashing to the party’s worst result since 1935 – needs a gigantic 7.9% swing from voters and non-voters of every class, age, town, city and region. The odds look shocking.
If anyone needed reminders, the BBC’s parliament channel this weekend reprised the dismal election night, exactly 50 years ago, when Harold Wilson was unexpectedly shunted out by Edward Heath in 1970. That was the first election I could vote in, the first I covered as a junior reporter, and it delivered a salutary slap of reality: even when virtually every poll, bookie and commentator expected a Wilson victory, Labour could still snatch a defeat. Continue reading...
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