Party officials have conducted more than 300 interviews with Democrats in all 50 states to create a document that Mr. Martin had once pitched as crucial to charting a path forward, revealed the Times Shane Goldmacher. Mr. Martin will instead keep the findings under seal.
What would happen, in such a challenge? Would Streeting reap the benefit of the rule change of 2021, in which a candidate would need 20% of the parliamentary party to nominate, rather than 10%? All the rumours back then were that this change was specifically designed to favour Streeting, by keeping mavericks, outliers, lefties or, let's give them their umbrella description, any MP the membership didn't actively loathe off the ballot.
Four years ago, Hartlepool confirmed the view of influential figures around Sir Keir that if Labour was to succeed it would be through ruthlessly expunging the leftish influence of most of its members, in favour of a topdown, centralised approach. The politics that subsequently emerged was technocratic, cautious to a fault and contemptuous of those who dared to remain within a supposed ideological comfort zone.
