Bad news for Keir Starmer; it looks like the HMRC & Angela Rayner's lawyers are closing in on a ('no fault'?) settlement around her tax affairs, with a resolution expected before the local elections.
If those elections don't go well for Labour (most is us think they won't), then Rayner will be in the position to mount a party leadership challenge, and seems to be securing backing for such a challenge.
What this implies for the Greens (GPEW & SGs) will be interesting?
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h/t Guardian
I'm not sure how many people outside the PLP see Rayner as a significant break from Starmerism. Burnham, more so. But both these figures would have to deal with a PLP selected by Mandelson and Blair. Essentially, Labour has nothing to offer more than fumbling mediocrity and consessions to vested interests and foreign money. There is no vision, just a car crash of alienated voters, distrust in activists, and political compromise piled on compromise .
That said, Labour don't have to be good. They just have to be less obnoxious than the alternative. Maybe that should be the basis of their election slogan. Suggestions welcome :)
I thought that was already their strategy, not that its working particularly well for them
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