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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer arrives at the TUC congress in London last week
LABOUR’S war on its own members took an embarrassing turn at the weekend when a left MP defeated the party’s threat of investigation against her for allegedly breaching its rules.
The investigation warning went to Kate Osborne, MP for Jarrow in north-east England on Friday, but was followed within an hour by a grovelling apology and retraction after she swiftly responded with a lawyer’s letter.
After stopping the investigation in its tracks, Ms Osborne asked how many other Labour Party members have been threatened without having recourse to expert legal advice.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott
