As Labour descends into civil war, some of the sharpest post-election criticism of Sir Keir Starmer has come from the Blairite wing of the party. After Corbyn announced his exit, it was assumed Momentum would wither and die, but I hear it has been quietly rebuilding. According to documents filed at Companies House by Momentum Campaign Services Limited, there was £167,000 in the bank in December 2018. In one of his first responses to Labour’s election disaster, Keir Starmer talked of moving Labour’s HQ outside London. Boris bet Sir Max Hastings, his former boss at the Daily Telegraph, £1,000 that the Tories would win a majority at the 2010 election.

Source: The Nation May 09, 2021 21:56 UTC