We note, tangentially, that Lord Liddle, the Labour peer whose Kennington table hosted dinners for Morgan McSweeney and Lord Mandelson, has switched from Starmer to Streeting.
The peer is currently chair of the centre-left think-tank Progress. He told the Church Times on Tuesday that he was “very sad about the situation.. but the plain fact is this: following the disastrous local elections, particularly the scale of the losses to Reform in the north and midlands, where Labour didn’t win a single seat in Angela Rayner’s Ashton-under-Lyne, the country and party are facing an existential crisis.
“Unless Labour dramatically raises its game in government, there is a real prospect we could end up with Nigel Farage as Prime Minister, with over 70 per cent of the country not wanting it to happen. I believe only Wes Streeting can lift the country and party out of this depression and torpor.”
Lord Liddle is married to the BBC Board's Senior Independent Director, Caroline Thomson.
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