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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer stares off into the distance
A LAWYER who joined a professional organisation at the same time as Sir Keir Starmer lifted the lid today on the Labour leader’s lack of socialist commitment in an exclusive interview with the Morning Star.
Barrister and academic Bill Bowring became a member of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers in the late 1980s.
Professor Bowring said that, although the former director of public prosecutions did a “magnificent” job as a human rights lawyer and had written for publications such as Socialist Alternative, he believed that Sir Keir was “never much of a socialist” as he did not seem to be “oriented towards the class struggle.”
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
Keir Starmer's early political life suggests a very different future from the one he ultimately embraced, says KEITH FLETT
