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Now they have power for themselves the Bennite left have junked the ‘new politics’ they promised and indulge patronage like never before Remember the fuss about ‘Tony’s cronies’? It began almost as soon as Tony Blair was elected leader of the Labour party in 1994, and...

The shadow local government secretary Andrew Gwynne takes Richard Angell and Conor Pope behind the scenes of the surprise election 'I’m infamous now’, Andrew Gwynne declares. He was ‘walking along the Embankment’ to parliament recently when he noticed two people...

Should Labour MPs retain a significant role in the nomination of future Labour leaders? [column-group][column] YES Sometimes standing fast means that the world just moves around you. Such is the situation for realists on the left when it comes to electing Labour’s...

Conference Arrangements Committee is another piece of party machinery in the hard-left’s hands The election to the Conference Arrangements Committee of Momentum’s candidates makes your insider’s well-worn line – that Corbynistas have not completely taken over – harder...