UK Politics

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In a botched reshuffle following disappointing local election results and a major by-election defeat in Hartlepool all the way back in 2021, Starmer attempted to clip the wings of his deputy leader Angela Rayner, seen as being on the left of the party.

Rayner — whose role is elected by members and therefore untouchable — was sacked from her job as party chair and national campaigns coordinator as Starmer’s team sought to blame her for the poor results.

When he ran for the Labour leadership, Starmer pledged to bring public services — name-checking rail, mail, energy and water — into “common ownership,” seen by many as a clear nod to nationalization of utilities long in private hands.

Labour last year formally confirmed to the i newspaper that it won’t end the charitable status of elite private schools if it wins power — though argued the change would make little difference in practice.

But hear us out: in a December article in the Conservative-supporting Daily Telegraph newspaper, Starmer positively gushed about the former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher — the very mention of whom sends shivers down the spines of Britain’s lefties.

After months — and, let’s be honest, what feels like decades — of internal and external pressure on Labour’s flagship £28 billion green investment plan, Starmer looks poised to finally announce its death.

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